They refer constantly to God and conspicuously pray in public.
Men sport full beards and women wear veils.
They urge Moslem solidarity and demonstrate a suspicion of non-Moslems. A closer look, however, finds that Islamists are hardly model Moslems. In fact, Islamists, for all their ostentatious piety, tend to be severely deficient as believers. Financial probity, for example, is a recurring trial for them. Nor are Islamists above petty theft.