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Originally Posted by Buster
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.
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Like I said, we need to find a way to get the Middle East to start engaging more. Lots of countries with resources are playing the fence.
The other option is for the West to go crazy over there. Change the rules of engagement and become utterly ruthless. Maybe you quiet things down for 5 years. At some point it will still be a problem though.
Need to change the foundation upon which these countries are built. Go back to pre 1980 times.