I'm as atheist as they come, but I see his "criticism" for the Muslim-bashing it is. I've been to several lectures/debates on daesh/ISIS (and more broadly, jihadism) by ME journalists, researchers and other experts, and none of them are looking at Islam or Muslims for an idea of how this shitstorm came to be or how to end it. Political Islam/Wahhabism, maybe, but otherwise the religion these violent assholes adhere to is quite irrelevant to the power struggle they're involved in or the atrocities they commit.

As far as I know, most experts point to a combination of old (artificial borders) and modern (western meddling) colonial politics, governmental failure (from corruption to ignoring the plight of Sunni minorities), regional tribal conflicts, an abundance of aimless young men and lots of weapons (and the people selling them).

Just off the top of my head, so it might be incomplete, but still.