Trouble is most of us have little direct connection. Like you want to say Wahhabists, Saudi royals, and the Ayatollahs are bad? No problem!
But beyond that I don’t have anything deeper or enlightening to say, really. While my understanding would be deeper than your average ‘man on the street’ its still pretty surface level. Also they don’t exercise any real power or influence on American politics or society, except as targets mostly. Unless you’re Michael Flynn and working as a lobbyist for would be theocratic regimes. So aside from how Turkish or Saudi political leaders influence or pressure US leaders for geopolitical reasons, there isn’t any ‘there’ there.
Which is decidedly not true of many Christian sects and denominations! Not only is their influence more real, but their deeper aspects are something I personally have a deep understanding of.