Or, as is much more usual in history, people do things just because. There are patterns of behavior typical of given societies, and Muslims are much given to the “mad mullah” phenomenon. It goes way, way back, and there was no Arab bureau, MI5 or CIA then.
The track record of western intelligence agencies is not that they initiate whatever. They see some new thing and try to “help”.
This may have all started with “good intentions” the Palestinian terrorism that Israel confronted with informants and undercover operatives real enough.
But once our security agencies adapted those tactics to deal with foreign-domestic “terrorism” the definition the labelling of ‘extremist’ got out of hand.
And so we came to the operations of security agencies on or around January 6, 2021.