Yeah, okay, there's more of a network than with your Copeland types, that's fair. But there's not anything like as much sympathy for them or their cause as there was with the IRA. Which I think is a bit of a taboo subject, but Christ - it was completely okay in American culture for a couple of decades to openly profess sympathy for them or even send money. ISIS et al's pool of sympathy is i think proportionally much shallower.
But there is sympathy for the cause, especially worldwide. The Manchester bomber went to Libya often, and I bet a lot of the people he conversed with weren't appalled by deaths in the west caused by Muslims.
Yeah, okay, there's more of a network than with your Copeland types, that's fair. But there's not anything like as much sympathy for them or their cause as there was with the IRA. Which I think is a bit of a taboo subject, but Christ - it was completely okay in American culture for a couple of decades to openly profess sympathy for them or even send money. ISIS et al's pool of sympathy is i think proportionally much shallower.