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The problem with suggesting that "Islam" is the problem is that there are lots of Muslims are perfectly normal well balanced people and don't want to go on insane killing sprees. But human nature being what it is, if the society they live in starts looking at them sideways with suspicion and saying that in some way they are accountable for the actions of crazed militants, they will feel marginalised. Marginalise a million normal people and the chances are a few of them will turn crazy, that's true of any population.
Repression begets violence, and violence becomes a vicious circle of attacks and counter attacks, endless recriminations, an eye for an eye, each side feeling they've been wronged. In all of human history, as far as I'm aware these kind of ethnic, religious and tribal conflicts have been resolved by only one thing: time. Time for the angry young men to age and calm down, for children to grow up in a society that accepts them sometimes despite their beliefs, for suicide bombings, gun attacks etc to become stories from history rather than fresh wounds, lost loved ones, fearful memories.
Basically, as horrible as it is I think all we can do is ride it out and do what we can to stop the next generation from the muslim world hating us as much as some of this generation do, for right or wrong, for our colonial past and the influence we've had in shaping their societies. Attacks will happen, innocent people will die. But to retaliate in any way short of killing everyone who might be a terrorist preemptively and turn our western, open society into a terrible repressive dictatorship will just be to prolong the current era of terrorism.
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Sorting these problems out is going to be complex. Getting rid of divisive beliefs like religion is not realistic unfortunately.
The new testament was about hippy stuff mostly, yet that and the old testament got overridden by political ambition, and religion was used as a badge for many wars. However, Islam teachings expressly advocate war
please read this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
None of the Mosaic texts are shining examples of tolerance, but the Koran is not any worse than the bible or the Torah.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/07/15/terror-hits-france-yet-one-sentence-explains/
The religion certainly is the issue. ISIS and the ISIS affiliated terrorist attacks are all conducted in relation to their religious beliefs. That religious belief is Islam. None of the ISIS terrorist attackers are Christian; they're Muslims, albeit a certain type of Muslim. There's no similar Christian related terrorist threat occurring at present in France, Britain, USA, etc.
They are inspired to kill based on their holy texts.
Further, certain tenets of Islam and Muslim culture are fundamentally incompatible with Western values. And multiculturalism isn't working.
Before we can deal with a problem we have to both identify and properly acknowledge what the problem is.
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The New Testament has only one commandment, given by Jesus: to love thy neighbour. Jesus explains that one's neighbour can be anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or class.
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Where in the New Testament does Jesus advocate hate? And where does he advocate killing non-believers and heretics?
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There in black and white. He had a chance to say otherwise, but no, he specifically says that the old laws still apply.
Mathew 10:34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.' Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
In a strange way, we in the UK were very lucky in having the troubles in Northern Ireland. We received a lengthy and rather cheap education about terrorism. The word 'cheap' is insulting to those who lost someone but I can't think of a better one at the moment.
That education taught us that you don't beat terrorism by treating it as a war. We learned that such an attitude may feel 'right' but it is completely wrong. We had to learn that forgiveness and tolerance had to form the basis for peace, and that co-operation as equals was the only way forward.
The fundamental problem is the current terroristic threat is values. Now it can be argued that Islam teaches 'wrong' values, and clearly ones like the subjugation of women are indeed wrong in the eyes of homogenised UK culture and law. However, the waging of war and aerial bombardment and collateral damage are also very wrong. The "we will not negotiate with terrorists" line is fundamentally stupid too, as is "our suicide bombers will make them change their minds".
Whilst neither side values the human life on the other side, then both sides share the wrong values. That is the continuous lesson of the Middle East.
Radical Islam is different from Islam. FACT. The vast majority of Muslims do not support this sort of action nor do they want to be associated with this.
There are various different forms of Islam. They are still all Islamic. ISIS related Islam is just one form of Islam.
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The vast majority of Christians apply an element of common sense. So do the vast majority of Islamists.
Of course neither of them want to admit any fault in their holy books.
It's a frightening horrible event. Of all the places in the world Nice is the last place in the world id expect something like this