CampeadorChrist, can you ever make an argument that isn't a garbled mess of semantics, assumptions, and general nonsense? You're like arguing with the first page of a Google search, no consistency and just all over the place.
Again, I'll take your imitation as flattery that your mediocrity is paying to my greatness (borrowed words from Oscar Wilde). It's not a very common word to use, and the fact that you started applying it immediately after I did is suspect at best. That's alright though, it's natural to want to imitate your betters, especially when your Sharia apologies are falling flat.
If ISIS or an ISIS-associated group controls territory in any country, that is a physical territorial expansion, whether its part of their official islamic caliphate or not. What in the hell is the difference between "the group" spreading or "the ideology" spreading? The group represents the ideology, and both are spreading, often thanks to open borders bleeding-hearts like yourself.
Trump up by 5 by the way in the most recent LA Times/USC tracking poll. You're just a Hillary supporter who wants to seem impartial by saying that you're voting for "what is Aleppo?" Gary Johnson. Fitting, since you're just as clueless.
Coming from you, that is rich. You seemingly have no idea how to refute an argument beyond ad-hominem attacks alongside right-wing sources.
Evidently you have never met either of my parents, both of whom love the word obtuse, alongside a plethora of other words you generally hear from Columbia-educated adults. But, then again, you evidently know my life better than I do.
There is a massive difference between the spreading of an ideology versus the physical spreading of boundaries. You do not find sharia law in places like Germany, France, or any other European country that has experienced the attacks from ISIS-linked groups. However, in ISIS-controlled territories you do. Same can be said about mass beheadings, immolation, torture, extortion, etc.
That is not to say that there are not Muslims around the world who do not believe in these radical ideas, but they do not go about forcing it upon massive swathes of land like ISIS has in Syria or Iraq, or for another example, the Taliban in Afghanistan. On top of this, ISIS-related ideology is not unique to ISIS, it can be found in Al Qaeda and its affiliates, Al Nusra, and other fringe Islamic groups like the Taliban that I previously have mentioned.
So, is it ISIS that is spreading or is it radical Islam? You seemingly conflate the two. If they are the same, then why not say Al Qaeda is spreading, or Al Nusra, or Boko Haram, or any other radical Islamist group.
Right, you evidently know little about statistics or poll methodology. If you want accurate polls, look at multiple, not singular. You can use sources like RealClearPolitics or FiveThirtyEight, both of whom take polls and aggregate their results.
That LA/USC poll is an interesting one. You can read why here, where an expert on polling and polling methodology explains it.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-leave-the-la-times-poll-alone/
But, then again, I am the clueless one.