Somalia's Islamists have spread a similar fear among Ethiopians, giving succour to Mr Zenawi's unpopular and isolated government.Though he has alleviated poverty a tad and improved the country's infrastructure, Mr Zenawi has turned Ethiopia into a police state.
Exultant Islamists would spread their terror into America, Europe and South and Southeast Asia.
One does not know what's going on within the reader's mind," Knobloch said, adding, "Of course it is in the interest of right wing militants and Islamists to spread these ideas".
Young people receptive to a hard-talking Islamist message, spread by networks of recruiters, seem to be in a discreet but angry search for an identity and purpose that, to their mind, France denies them.
Western governments fear that if they were to send their security forces to attack towns such as Haradheere, a pirate haven, the Islamist fighters of the Shabab militia, which controls much of south and central Somalia and is linked to al-Qaeda, might be strengthened.Besides, the pirates could yet prove to be odd allies in stopping the Islamists from spreading their jihadist net.
Regardless, it is vital to stop the deadly cancer of Islamist extremism spreading further south.
If analysts are already weighing up the implications of possible links with Isis, if presidential candidates are taking it as read that Mateen was part of a web of Islamist terror spreading across the globe, let me imagine a situation in which sex, not sectarianism, plays a part.
The border is a major route for the traffic in Afghan heroin to Russia while concern about Islamist militancy spreading from Afghanistan has increased with the approach of the Nato-led coalition's withdrawal of troops.
The US and other Western powers and countries in the region see the fight against the group as a vital part of the battle to prevent Islamist militancy spreading in East Africa and beyond.
If, as is claimed by political and economic analysts (Cengiz and Hoffmann, 2012; Hoşgör, 2011), such senior positions are increasingly occupied by Islamists, then the spread of the asymmetric intergroup bullying reported in this article may contribute to a marked increase in the income of Islamists at the top of society, at the cost of secularists.
