Jordan’s King Abdullah has stood against the extremist movement ISIL from the start, although the Hashemite Kingdom’s 6.5 million people have been divided.<br /><br /> The execution of a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot rallied more to the government position. <br /><br /> It bolstered the country’s participation in the US-led military coalition against the ISIL jihadists, but that participation is still politically challenging. <br /><br /> The pro-western reformist Abdullah vowed to avenge the death of Lt. Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, a member of a large tribe that forms the backbone of support for the monarchy.<br /><br /> But, among its people, Jordan also harbours support for the Islamists.<br /><br /> Graffiti in the town of Ma’an, around 240 kilometres south of the capital Amman, bears this out, as does the portrait of Osama Kraishan, a Jordanian killed in Syria last month. <br /><br /> Anti-western radical Islamism in Jordan pre-dates the regional rise of ISIL.<br /><br /> Support for the Syrian revolution against its president Bashar al-Assad is repor
