Most people thought of Saddam when they thought of Islam, but he was just a brutal dictator that didn't really care about religion(kind of like a Middle Eastern Stalin). Americans knew nothing of Islam until years after 9/11. I can remember downloading the video of Nick Berg slow beheading back in the day when it took 20 minutes to get a video like that and watched it and realized we are dealing with something beyond our imagination.
Since then Europe and America has had plenty of warning about what's up and the Left still embrace Islam, champion that shit. That's why lots of Atheists jumped on board the Alt-right train, they saw what was happening to the west and knew she was committing suicide.
A large part of this is women in politics, they have a soft spot for these clowns, I don't know if it's secret desire to be raped.