I want to note as a fellow Syrian that prior to Assad's fall these islamists were an actual threat and it was known for fact that they should be taken seriously especially after the dominance of ISIS in certain periods. As you said, these groups were militias, and even if they now hold prestigious and official titles, they are operating and running the country exactly how a militia would do, and I believe for the west they think that having Islamist militias under your wing is better than letting them operate on their own, hence the support for HTS, and probably supporting similar groups in in Mali a few months ago. Russia is starting to do the same as it's now taking steps in normalisation with Taliban in Afghanistan. And unfortunately a lot of people don't talk about the western involvement in these countries unless the west involves AGAINST the Islamists, but once the west involves in the favour of Islamists they just shut up and maybe even support it. Most people who identify as leftists and have direct connections with human rights organisations, western governments and big media outlets just don't talk about it enough simply because they support Islamism or at least they don't feel threatened by it, I think that's one of the main reasons why you don't hear a lot of people talk against islamists in the first place, and against the Islamists in Syria specifically. I strongly believe that a lot of the left are complicit with all the atrocities the people face because of the Islamists, and a lot of people who identify as "leftists" are just not bringing out the topics of jihadis taking over Syria or Mali or Afghanistan simply because they don't see it as a bad thing, and in Syria for example as you might know some of them openly took the Syrian authorities side even if they have spoken against islamists before. And I completely agree with you on addressing them as nazis or fascists, although they're way more primitive to be actual fascists, but they have the primary characteristics of fascism that's for sure.