No, I think he meant other Muslims that aren't/weren't involved with ISIS. Remember, ISIS is still a radical minority, and there are Muslims who don't support ISIS.
If what you are supposing is true, it fails to address what should be done now; should the French increase air attacks on ISIS, abandon their effort, or lead a ground incursion?
Over 50% of the population in many Muslim majority states believe that terrorism is at least 'rarely', and over 5% (, which is a large number of people,) believe it is justified 'often'.[1] There are obviously a large number of Muslims who do not support ISIS (probably a great majority, given sectarian and other considerations), but ISIS is not the only extremist Islamist organization in conflict with western values and/or governments.
I made no straw-man; I would actually like to know what the parent was proposing the French should do. The parent proposed that Westerners should be kind to everyone, but that does not address what should be done about the current problems.
Ok, let me make this a little bit more clear then. Taken straight from wikipedia we have the definition of a straw man argument.
A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent.
Your reply to the parent poster was "So you are proposing that the French should respond to having over a hundred of their fellow citizens killed, and hundreds more injured by loving the supporters and leaders of ISIS?".
I was correcting you because you suggested that the parent was "proposing that the French..." and leaving the absurdity of the proposition to be its own refutation, when in fact the whole statement was "an argument which was not advanced by [the parent poster]".
Let us be clear that you can still desire to know what the parent was proposing the French do while also attacking his original position with a straw man arguemnt, which is exactly what occurred.
This is what makes me upset about the many US governors who say they will refuse Syrian refugees. They are playing right into their hand: letting their fear guide their politics.
