I always thought of myself as a reasonably intelligent bloke but certain things really are beyond me. Yes ,I know that we in the western world consider ourselves advanced, and the threat from the islamists only raised itself in the western public mind since 2001. (or maybe min 1990's to some). But the thing that springs into my obviously poorly educated brain is:
Why do we, as a group , in the western world, allow "Islamists" to live within our societies with little or no monitoring, when "more repressive regimes" like those in Syria and Jordan ( and Iraq before 2003), always clamped down on extreme islamists having perceived them as a threat? Maybe our liberal society has encouraged extremism by refusing to condem it?
