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Originally Posted by Iggy City
I believe those regions would be just as volatile if they had an influx of weaponry left behind by past wars, given to them by other countries, or had valuable natural resources waiting to be spoiled.
Agreed, they should be blaming radicals and fundamentalists.
I guess what I'm trying to stay is it's more complicated than stating that "Islam" is the one true cause of terrorism. There are a lot of political and socio-economical factors that created ISIS and the ####-show that is now Syria and Iraq.
I really think ISIS would be no different if they were a Jewish group or a Christian group.
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There are plenty of weapons in South America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Many of these areas were the fronts of the cold war, and the US/USSR pumped them full of all sorts of automatic weapons.
I do agree though that the issue isn't with the particular religion. It's with the fundamentalists who see the religion as a political force more than a religion. They want to establish a worldwide government, not merely practice a religion in a free society. The fundamentalist movement has far more in common with communist extremists in the 1960s than it does with other religions.