Dude, to the left, all forms of social response to anything are a precursor to Enlightenment, or realizing that communism is what everyone is really seeking. And Islam is seen, by the left, as a precursor to communal life.
In reality they are only the best exploiters of despair (kind of like the ideological Rothschilds). They have no real answers to anything, and all they want, as with any other attention seeker, is control.