The first couple of paragraphs were pretty good reading, but then the writer spun off into a dirty ditch with this  ridiculous quip:

" Islamophobia... is drawing confused, vulnerable youth into (the ISIS) fold".

What?!? Hello?

I see, so the author is blaming the victim. It is somehow the fault of the Western people going to markets and music halls and popular bars who are pushing lovely Muslim young men into ISIS, because there is just too much "Islamophobia" among those crowds of Westerners frequenting the markets and music halls and bars. 

What utter nonsense. 

ISIS and its ilk are blowing up markets and mosques all over the greater Middle East, killing thousands upon thousands of MUSLIM - hello - MUSLIM people in those acts. "Islamophobia" has nothing to do with this ISIS violence, be it in America or Britain or Iraq or Africa, and it is piercingly offensive that the writer made such an ignorant and backwards quip.