All people are equal in the eyes of the creator.
When there is a war, we always try to dehumanize the opposition, usually by inventing words to describe them as something less than human.
We did the same thing to justify keeping blacks as slaves, inventing a term that meant that they were not human with equal rights to our own.
That said, does the cab driver in the M E "seek the annihilation of our country"? People in other nations generally want the same thing we do: liberty, a decent place to live, education for their children, a chance to earn a living.
It is organizations like Al Qaeda and the Taliban who seek the annihilation not only of the western nations, but of anyone who doesn't share their rather narrow view of the world, including fellow Muslims.
There is no war between Islam and Christianity. What we are seeing is a war between civilization and savagery. When we descend to the level of he savages, then they win.
