their is a reason for their cause other than religion, the route cause.
This is an interesting question, is the root cause the religion/ideology or something else. For me, it is the ideology that comes first ... but I can see that societies where there is a lot of poverty prove fertile ground and particularly societies that are patriarchal, where questioning is not very acceptable (within family or without), thinking for oneself is not encouraged, where education is low, where female education is exceptionally low and as the main carer for the children both male and female the lack of education of the mother is probably particularly problematic, but then again --- it isn't just that, is it. Germany was a 1st world, highly educated population for its time but fascism took hold easily there (they had extreme poverty due to the restrictions placed upon them from the 1st world war but the other societal issues, no). Equally India has extreme poverty in urban areas and fairly low rates of education in the rural areas, women are particularly less likely to be educated and yet they are not taking to fascist/utopic/supremacist ideologies --- but perhaps the difference there is that questioning is not necessarily unencouraged --- but then in Germany I think that they had great thinkers and people in society were encouraged to question, too.
So I think it is an interesting question --- what is the root cause. Of course, the joke answer is always that none of these extremists have ever managed to develop a sense of humour! Whether that be Germans in the 1930s or Taleban right now.
They have no capacity to laugh at life or at themselves.
But the more serious issue is that it is, perhaps, an innate characteristic in every human to look for a utopia and if someone has the capacity to convince someone else that you can provide it (through their charismatic oratory and psychological tricks), people will sacrifice almost everything including themselves to bring it about. But of course, it is just a lie - a lie that the person or persons use to bring themselves power.
The heaven on earth only exists if you choose to bring it about within yourself, within your own perspective --- not by forcing others to do your bidding! That just ends up being absolute personal hell (and hell for everyone else) --- as we can see with any number of dictators who descend into miserable paranoias such as Mao/Stalin/Idi Amin Dada/Nero from ancient world to modern. So why don't we stop these ideologies, why do we sit here and sort of go --- oh, its all okay. Nothing really wrong, and lets not look at the ideology, lets look at US ... it must be our fault. Just like an abused wife sits there and says, "Oh, it is all my fault he beat me up, I didn't get him his favourite sausages for supper and I KNOW he loves those sausages - so it is ALL my fault, all my fault that I got beaten up." NO IT ISN'T.
What is this victim mentality we have in the West, constantly berating ourselves for this growing ideology. It is nothing to do with us, except for the fact that we accept it and try to blame ourselves for it, which is clearly nuts, in my point of view.
I am probably the only person left in the world, who thinks that they are glad Saddam Hussein was removed (but that might be because I knew some Kurds at University). I think had I been living in Iraq, I would have been delighted that he was removed from power. That said, I also agree that there ought to have been a better thought-through after process. And it is not because I EVER thought that Saddam was in any way connected with Al-Quaeda or was in any way a threat to the West on that level. I think that we were lied to, deliberately, by our politicians about these weapons of mass destruction and I thought that at the time, too but I still thought that removing Saddam would have been a good thing for Iraq and for the people of Iraq.
I don't see why removing a dictator was necessarily considered such an EVIL act. And had there been a strong, political, incorrupt leader to take over perhaps it would have been a great thing but instead it just descended into chaos and factionality, which has lead to appalling loss of human life but what is this thought that America wants Iraq as a new-style imperial colony. I just don't see that, at all.
As for Manningham-Buller. If she had been any good at her job she ought to have been able to convince and persuade the govt according to the facts she had - the fact that she couldn't just reflects negatively on her, as far as I see it. If she had felt that strongly at the time, she should have made her feelings known and resigned from her position in protest. I don't have much time for people who bleat after the fact that it was nothing to do with them.... If you felt that, then show it at the time like Robin Cook, who resigned. Like the scientist who was then murdered (apparently committed suicide - yeah right) I have forgotten his name. You say it then, you don't say it afterwards - that is just nonsense! Cowardly nonsense.
I say right now that this Islamo-fascism is a dangerous ideology. I say it but I am not in a position of influence to be heard. I am not going to wait until thousands are being herded into concentration camps for being kaffir and not ideologically-satisfactory and then say it. NO. Say it at the time. Do what you can to stop it at the time. Don't sit around and bleat afterwards!