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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Can't really say its solely the religion that is sparking it. Lots of political, social and economic reasons why these people are becoming extremists.
If they didn't have Islam, they'd probably have another ideology such as communism or something and be having violent revolutions all the time.
Poverty, power imbalances, intolerance between different ethnic groups, the after effects of European imperialism and colonialism and the subsequent withdrawls, etc are probably more the root cause of a lot of these issues. Religion factors in but its not the sole cause as some people mistakenly believe.
Violence is a worldwide occurence.
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Religion may not be the root cause of conflict (although I for one believe that it certainly could be), but it definitely makes it harder to resolve them. Give a non-religious person enough of what they want and it's no longer worth it for them to fight you. A religious person is often unable to make the compromises required for conflicts to end.
IMO what needs to happen is that moderate muslims need to marginalize the extremists rather than sympathizing with them.