Do Jihadists deserve our sympathy?

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Now here is another rather controversial topic at first I would say no to the question but I wonder since in their shoes they are fighting for their way of life and land just in an extreme way.Feel free to put your imput on the issue.

No.

Many of them are fighting injustice but they target innocent people so I don't feel sympathy for them. I can somewhat understand the motivation and helplessness that leads them to it though.

One could make the argument they are the truest soldiers. They are fighting for what they believe in. A deep belief. Most soldiers of a nation are fighting for paycheck or some kind of blind loyalty. They are going to war simply because they were ordered to, they don't have a deep connection to the cause. They are basically mercenaries. A jihadist fights for his own conscience.

PFEH!

They are TERRORISTS!

If there was anything noble about them, they would not target non-combatants like women and children.

They deserve less sympathy than Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Kaczynski, and deserve to only be treated the same.

In my opinion they are desperate and have nothing to lose so they.probably feel that taking civilians lives with them is a noble cause but in reality they are losing and wasting lives along the way.

it is a left wing impulse to say that morality is all relative and draw moral equivalents.... they have their suicide bombers, we have our abortion clinic bombers, its all relative, we shouldn't judge. The terrorists are weak, and fighting the powers that be, and the Left also identify's with that as well. There is no objective morality, the weak, the poor, the powerless are to be admired and the strong, the rich, and the powerful criticized. That is how the left everywhere divide the world. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter is never said about the US military. The left never shrug at the negative accusations thrown at our military, and use that line. So for them, it is only true about terrorists, and secondly, those terrorists are freedom fighters. The question they do love to ask is "What did we do to deserve this?" It is an interesting question, mainly because I have yet to understand the motivations behind it. If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me.

If they only would fight for themselves to have their own way of life, there would be no problem about it.

The problem is, they are fighting to FORCE their way of life on OTHER people.

The right to live your way of life, stops on your own self. Forcing it to everyones else by weapon instead free democracy (meaning, that people are free to leave a country if they do not want to life under the actual democratic laws), including your children, your wife, your neighbours... is not acceptable.

You wanna live in a hole under the earth, believing that the holy spagetthimonster will come soon to end the world, and to take everyone with it on an UFO to a paradise at another star? Go have fun with it. Just dont force that believe on other people.

Depends on the jihadi in question.

Some jihadists are essentially cannon-fodder, having been subjected to a targeted indoctrination with the sole purpose of carrying out suicide attacks.

The Pakistan/Kashmir based Lashkar-E-Taiba is good at using these, as they have their own infrastructue and "educational" system.

Some sources claim that this guy (the sole surviving perpetrator of the 2008 Mumbai attacks) apparently had only a rudimentary grasp of Islamic scripture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Kasab

Of course, being the only one left to take responsibility for 164 deaths, the highest realistic level of "sympathy" he can hope for is to have his death sentence commuted.

But it may be a mood point. A lot of confrontations with jihadists are on the battlefield, and not in the safety of the courtroom where pros and cons of sentences and sanctions can be discussed rationally. Questions of sympathy may not be awfully relevant while under fire from the enemy.

Many Jihadists aren't even from the country in question (iraq, afghanistan). When they're out fighting the occupiers, they don't have to worry about tearing up their backyard to do it. Not only do they kill men, women, and children for not being on their side, they kill them just to get a shot at us. I've seen one suicide bomber take out over 10 civillians just to blow up our convoy, and thanks to our armor, all he did to us was lacerate one of the driver's knees.

Not to say that we're supposed to be in thouse countries ourselves, it's just that we keep bombs off their roads and try to build an infrastructure that the populace will actually need, jihadists try to blow it all up and blame us.