I'm not underestimating anyone, just showing how it's bogus to say use of the internet is a distinction between the two (it's merely the difference between an underground orgn in Waziristan post 2001 and a pseudo state in urban M East 2015) or the IS leadership having fled Iraq, which they haven't. AQ also had a magazine, Inspire, so that's no different, and those who used to support AQ also had demos, protests and recruitment. I actually photographed one guy (a Mohammed Hamid) doing so at London's Speakers Corner c2006 and later recognised him when he was convicted of recruiting people to go to Syria and was nicknamed Osama Bin London in the press (FWIW at the time I thought he was a nice, engaging personality). What you're still doing is confusing IS, a group with an explicit local track record and raison d'etre, with foreigners who bought into that franchise but have added their AQ behaviour.