How has pilot's savage killing affected support for ISIL in Jordan?
- 9 years ago
Jordan’s King Abdullah has stood against the extremist movement ISIL from the start, although the Hashemite Kingdom’s 6.5 million people have been divided.
The execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot rallied more to the government position.
It bolstered the country’s participation in the US-led military coalition against the ISIL jihadists, but that participation is still politically challenging.
The pro-western reformist Abdullah vowed to avenge the death of Lt. Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, a member of a large tribe that forms the backbone of support for the monarchy.
But, among its people, Jordan also harbours support for the Islamists.
Graffiti in the town of Ma’an, around 240 kilometres south of the capital Amman, bears this out, as does the portrait of Osama Kraishan, a Jordanian killed in Syria last month.
Anti-western radical Islamism in Jordan pre-dates the regional rise of ISIL.
Support for the Syrian revolution against its president Bashar al-Assad is repor
The execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot rallied more to the government position.
It bolstered the country’s participation in the US-led military coalition against the ISIL jihadists, but that participation is still politically challenging.
The pro-western reformist Abdullah vowed to avenge the death of Lt. Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, a member of a large tribe that forms the backbone of support for the monarchy.
But, among its people, Jordan also harbours support for the Islamists.
Graffiti in the town of Ma’an, around 240 kilometres south of the capital Amman, bears this out, as does the portrait of Osama Kraishan, a Jordanian killed in Syria last month.
Anti-western radical Islamism in Jordan pre-dates the regional rise of ISIL.
Support for the Syrian revolution against its president Bashar al-Assad is repor