Al Qaeda and ISIL/ISIS/Daesh are different beasts. The latter's stated intention has been the establishment of a modern caliphate that counts all of the world's

Al Qaeda and ISIL/ISIS/Daesh are different beasts. The latter's stated intention has been the establishment of a modern caliphate that counts all of the world's Sunni Muslims as citizens and that wages a war against the rest of the world (Shia, Jewish, Christian, whatever). It wants all Sunnis to be ejected from the West and sent back to live under its caliphate. Given that, it "wins" when the West (a) rejects Muslims (especially Sunnis fleeing ISIL) or (b) talks about Islamism as an existential threat (i.e. lionizes ISIL).