Who are the animals? Look at world history since about 600 AD and ask us again who are the animals. At some point diplomacy, negotiations and retreat from a relentlessly warring culture give way to slaughter. Europe battled from before 732 (see Battle of Tours) and on after 1683 (see Battle of Vienna) against the constant intrusion of one caliphate after another, until their current attitude of surrender. Ask the Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists how many were slaughtered by the invading muslims?