I think a lot of people here (on both sides of the aisle) don't realize that "radical Islam" has been used as a tool or pawn by the PTSB, to achieve their globalist agendas. It has been used as a pretext for interventionist wars based on lies
and as a pretext for more authoritarianism and less rights and privacy.
There always has to be a bogeyman. Whether it's Covid1984, or "climate change" or "the war on terror"... the PTSB understand full well that when people are in fear, they are easier to control. Plus it gives them the perfect opportunity to "come to the rescue" with their pre-planned "solutions." (Problem - Reaction - Solution.)