By contrast, authoritarian regimes’ repression of civilians, and their non-differentiation between civilians and killers, provides extremists with fertile recruiting conditions by discrediting the government in the eyes of a significant part of its population. An undifferentiated approach towards political Islamism that fails to distinguish between those who reject violence and those who resort to terror only facilitates the extremists’ work, for they emerge as champions of causes that do not reflect their true goals.
与此形成鲜明对照的是，独裁政权对民众的压制以及他们把民众和凶手混为一谈的策略使得政府在很大一部分民众中毫无信誉可言，也为极端分子提供了肥沃的招募土壤。不分青红皂白地将伊斯兰政治混为一谈，将抵制暴力和使用暴力者同等对待只会有利于极端分子开展工作，因为这样他们就可以把自己装扮成正义事业的支持者，尽管这根本不是他们的真实目标。