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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
There are moderate Muslims who have contact with radicals. Those are the ones who can help drive back radicalism. Why is that so difficult to understand?
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So what can they do other than denounce what they are doing and try to convince them it's wrong?
To bring back the KKK example. How do you think the conversation would go of someone such as yourself trying to bring a KKK member into a more moderate space? Do you think they will welcome that conversation?
These extremists, by definition, cannot listen to reason. If moderate Muslims made up 99% of Islam and all 1 billion of them did all the things you want them to do (and are already doing), there are still 10 million who will label them heretics/infidels the same as everyone else. Their way is the right way, and everyone must live that way or die. We see from this very attack that they have no prejudice for who dies, if they are not with them, they are against Allah, and the sentence for that is death. That's it that's all. No one will convince them otherwise.
"You cannot reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into."