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The fact that Islamist groups oppose the US is one aspect of their appeal, but it's really only one factor.

It could well be that Americans, in particular, have a media-formed consensus on what an islamist extremist is.

Turkey would quickly become another Greece, only likely with a violent Islamist opposition instead of a violent Fascist opposition.

Oh, and of course our media was extremely supportive of the rebellion in Syria despite the growing influence of Islamist groups.

Instead they have been supporting dictators, nazi affiliated parties (see Ukraine) and islamist extremists who destroy 2000+ years of civilizations (see Syria).

He is dismantling turkey and converting it into islamist state with great speed.

If you want more info about the fake left, go read Zizek's piece on the morally corrupt fake left championing of Islamist criminal apologism.

The gaming of Middle Eastern countries (including funding Islamist extremists until 2001).

But we did let Al-Baghdadi go, and equally charismatic islamist and look what that led to.

Two of those countries you just named have fundamentalist Islamist elements.

There is also the association, in the West, of Muslim terrorists with immigration (as Islamist terror attacks in the West have largely been committed by immigrants).

It's the same essential motivation that fueled the rise of Islamist terror groups in the Mideast: young men with education but no financial or social prospects.

You hold that Islamist terrorists must necessarily have the (vaguely defined by you) motive of "provoking the US", when most Islamist attackers on the U.

I too am in favour of "doing something" about Islamist extremism, but I don't have any good specific ideas and neither it seems does anyone else.

It's easy to forget that both the direct intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the less direct support of the rebellions during the "Arab Spring" resulted in very unstable situations and a very disconcerting shift towards Islamist extremism in those regions.

What people seem to forget is that the majority of their population is very rural, uneducated and really in opposite with western and European values and their power base since the latest regime change just been growing, the "Islamist" opposition you speak off is not an opposition any more it's the ruling party.

Islamist terrorists don't target JFK airport in the hopes of disrupting our military supply lines.

If you're disaffected in a Baathist regime, then it's natural to become an Islamist.

If I'm part of the sexist lower class Indian culture, or Islamist/certain African/FGM culture, is my choice to assault a woman not ultimately my responsibility?