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but where does their popular support from?
Why is vast swaths of the Islamic world in the bed of islamofacists, you don't see a parallel in western countries? There will always be lone nutters from every walk of life, look at that cult leader in Japan as an example; but only in certain conditions will they garner this kind of popular support.

We've got entire nations that are impoverished and feel impotent. Their extreme faith gives them something to cling to and be proud of, no different to neonazi kids in Russia or Scotland or those that rally around the extremist calls of others throughout history. Extremist leaders prey on anger to fuel their campaigns, they take that anger and give it a target and this galvanizes people in a way nothing else can. There are angry people across the Middle East. They're persecuted the west bank and the gaza strip, they're impoverished everywhere and they're politically impotent. Did you know there is a strong collation between political power and general happiness?

You're underestimating the power of repression too. Egypt, home to many of the middle-upper class backers of these guys suffers from an extreme kind of political stagnation and apathy, the political process has failed them as have their leaders, so they look to other methods.