The Islamists are occupied with everything except what actually matters. Like any political party in the West, they keep the people diverted and distracted with fake issues and manufactured causes, as if their entire existence is dependent upon people never understanding the dynamics of power. But they are misreading the mood of the population, just as the parties in the West are misreading it.
People like Trump and the radical Right-wing figures in Europe, are not ascending because they are actually popular; it is because huge segments of the population are simply abandoning the political process. They are abandoning it because they are disgusted, and they are abandoning it because they are increasingly understanding that power does not lie with the government.
For the last 40 years in the US, every presidential candidate has promised change, and has delivered complete continuity. The gap between rich and poor has increased every single year since before I was born. Wages have either frozen or declined. And this is exactly the same all around the world. No one believes politicians anymore, and no one believes that politicians even have authority over government policy anymore. And they are right.
This is going to create a serious crisis for the power structure, because one of the main mechanisms they have historically had for controlling popular discontent was the revolving cycle of elections. As long as politicians took the blame for the policies being dictated by business, the people could be appeased by merely changing the political administration. But when people are starting to recognize that it simply does not matter who is in office, this mechanism will no longer work.
It is going to become more and more difficult to divert people away from the real institutions of authority. Entities like the IMF multinational corporations, are inevitably going to become the logical targets of political activism; as well they should be. The Islamists can either be at the vanguard of this inevitable development, or be swept away by it.