Europe had, for several hundred years, suffered Islamic terrorism. Punitive raids against the terrorists, for example the American Barbary wars, failed to deter them.
The confluence of piracy and terrorism in contemporary Somalia has led a lot of people to conflate the two, but not every act of violence involving Muslims is terrorism. The motives of the Muslims in the Barbary Wars have little to do with the motives of Salifists.
This successfully ended Islamic terrorism. From 1830 to 1960, the west had no problem with Islamic terrorism.
But if you are going to insist on such an overbroad definition of terrorism, then your latter statement is false, false, false, false.
The confluence of piracy and terrorism in contemporary Somalia has led a lot of people to conflate the two, but not every act of violence involving Muslims is terrorism. The motives of the Muslims in the Barbary Wars have little to do with the motives of Salifists.
But if you are going to insist on such an overbroad definition of terrorism, then your latter statement is false, false, false, false.