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Originally Posted by PyramidsofMars
It will stop with education. There are several places in the world where Islam and huge Western populations exist peacefully with no violence at all. It's not hard to see that these places are areas with better education systems- Oman and the UAE being great examples with large expat populations and no animosity between them and the locals (for the most part). The worst areas in the world for terrorism are either poor areas or areas with a repressed and severely worrisome education system- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.
What must stop from the position of white people is the confusion of Islam for an ethnicity. There are plenty of Christian Arabs, plenty of us who don't practice any religion. As for other sorts of Muslims how can you really tell with a glance the difference between a Hindu or Christian Indian and a Muslim Indian, granted the Muslim isn't surrounded by veiled women and has a gigantic beard?
It's natural human behavior to distrust a group of people of which a minority has been responsible for much violence around the world. This only becomes a problem when generalizations and actual hatred come into play.
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Good points. I'd thank you but I ran out of thanks. So I'll quote the stuff I like.