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Originally Posted by Azure
Does it matter where they come from? We can't put up a wall of keep people from entering the country for the rest of our existence.
We need to find a way to get the Middle East to engage a lot more than how they are right now. Lots of rich countries are turning a blind eye to their own problem.
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The Middle East?
The main problem (if you can distill it down to that), is that mainstream Islam is not nearly as troubled with these events as we are. The message out of this atrocity from the Muslim community will be to condemn "Islamophobia" - that will be the primary concern of the Muslim world. Just like Charlie Hebdo. Just like Orlando. Just like 9-11.
People feel that the only way for this to end is Islamic moderates to finally have their voice heard. The problem is that Islamic moderates are not moderate in the way we think they are. An Islamic moderate is still way far to the extremist than they are to sharing secular/liberal/western views.
We know this from well regarded poll results from organizations like Pew and ICM.