It's so strange that homeless and desperate refugees whose members take extremist action somehow match up unfavorably to a massive expansionist army that has, in the past, completely razed a city-state to the ground. The worst Ala Mhigan extremists have done is riot in areas that have treated them like garbage and marginalized their rights for the past decade and a half. Garlean extremists (who happened to be people in positions of power, mind) planned the complete genocide of every single person on Eorzea by dropping a freaking moon on them. I'm not a moral absolutist, but the Garlean Empire needs to be stopped for the good of the people around them. I'm not saying that all Ala Mhigans deserve a free pass, but you cannot convince me that fricking Garlemald measures up favorably to Ala Mhigo on a moral level.