Is Saudi Arabia more Extreme than 'Islamic State'? My comment I find this hypocritical. It excludes the extremism of the Western regimes. When an organization kills or beheads people or throws gays to their deaths, etc, they are called extremists and barbaric, but when the Western regimes invade and occupy countries, kill half a million children through sanctions, kill civilians by bombing weddings and shelters, etc, impose economic policies on countries, support or turn a blind eye on Israel's state's and settlers' barbarism, being part of the counter-revolution that has aborted the Arab uprising, rendition, torture, blackmailing, arm-twisting, corporate involvement in fuelling wars in Africa, for example, etc... they are not called barbaric and extremists because they kill "democratically" using their smart bombs, F16s, white phosperous... and give people "freedom". The small barbarism, if you trace it, is the bastard child of the big barb
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51