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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
I don't think anyone is pretending it doesn't exist, it definitely exists and something needs to be done about it. Was just pointing out that while religion does play a major role, there are obviously other factors at play.
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Unfortunately, many people are pretending exactly this. Which is why you read or hear things like "this behaviour has nothing to do with Islam". As if there's no relationship whatsoever between the doctrines and the practice of those doctrines.
I obviously agree that there are myriad factors in play, it could hardly be otherwise in any civil society. But this is a major factor being frequently discounted on the basis of not wanting to offend the vast numbers of Muslims who practice their religion in a non-violent and largely unobjectionable way.
That's not a good reason for denying the obvious as horrors are being inflicted on huge numbers of people, many of them women and children, and almost all of them Muslim themselves.