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Originally Posted by jammies
That's not what I'm saying, though, I'm saying that this KIND of thinking is what creates terrorism, not this specific instance. Dividing the world into Us vs Them is wrong. Islam vs the West, believers vs non-believers, liberals vs conservatives, cat-people vs dog-people - whichever. All wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Us vs them is wrong. But so is ignoring problems. If a man murders his wife because his pastor told him, should we blame underlying likely contributors like education and poverty? Yes. But we shouldn't ignore
precisely the murderer's stated reason.
Radical islamism is the most direct problem, and it
is Islam. Let's stop pretending that the terrorists aren't "real Muslims" or that it isn't a significant problem in the religion.
If people are being radicalized in our mosques, which they are, then it is incumbent upon the religious leaders to fully cooperate to eliminate this (which for the most part they are. We shouldn't start isolating Muslims or preventing them from practicing their faith or make them ashamed of it.
However, to pretend their religion isn't playing a very big role here is both disingenuous and damaging to any future solutions