"bo: You don't think there is a connection between Jihadists and Islam?"
Correct, I don't. Jihadists, a misnomer in itself, are not members of the Muslim faith. They twist it and reshape it to their own desires so that they can justify among themselves the murder of hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians and countless other crimes, just as so-called Christians did with the KKK. Terrorists in Islamic nations and those who spread their filth around the rest of the world are not followers of Islam, they only use it as a cover for their own actions.
Unfortunately, yes, they find their way into government, and on occasion, they have some substantial public support. Unfortunately, yes, those governments often affiliate themselves with such organizations. I'm no psychic - I can't tell you why reasonable legislators in the Muslim world choose to affiliate themselves with people like the Taliban, but I imagine that it is either a) substantial sums of money, or (more likely) b) threats of violence against them or the people around them. Otherwise, yes, there certainly are unreasonable legislators in that part of the world, as there are here and everywhere else, who support the wrong people. I hope that they simply fell down a simply slope when they first affiliated themselves with terrorists and aren't overwhelmingly in favor of such actions as it appears to us, and I hope that they aren't still in those alliances only out of hatred of the US and Western Europe.
I doubt that second point is an acceptable answer, but it's what I have. I hope they can figure out their own issues because lord knows we can't do it for them.
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