I don't watch news channels. Not one. My comments were based on actual personal experience. I lived, travelled and worked for many years in several Islamic countries, including Algiera (I was brought up there and my mothers family is from Algiers), Morocco, Northern Nigeria (spent several years there as a child), Benin, Togo, rural Indonesia, rural Malaysia, UAE. I have also witnessed first hand the violence committed by zealots on both sides, including having colleagues blown up by a terrorist bomb placed under their car, people being killed during the later stages of the Battle of Algiers, and our neighbours in Lagos were randomly chosen and brutally murdered by a religion driven terrorist group, including the baby.
My last experience was to be in a small passenger aircraft picking up 19 passengers from a remote airstrip in Sudan, only to discover the "passengers" were 19 goats and the Shepard was carrying a loaded AK47 and an RPG!
Many of the more extreme people and organizations recruit poor low education level people from remote communities as they can be easily trained and made faithful to the cause, and because they are looked after and don't know any different.
I lived as a child and worked as an adult, including civilian and the military, in these countries and survived because I was taught and understand that when you go to these places you have to fit in and not do anything remotely out of step with local thinking and experience, if not, you are asking for trouble.