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Originally Posted by Itse
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If you want to put the blame on religion, you could blame Wahhabism.
Wahhabism is a recent (mostly 20th century) branch of pseudo-Sunni Islam that started to gather speed in the 1970's, and that actually does correlate with terrorism to the point that people are IMO right to be worried about it.
(Also worth noting that not all Islamic armed groups that are labeled terrorists are at all the same. Some have fighting what I'd call somewhat legitimate wars, if you consider any war to be legitimate. Others are simply terror groups. The latter type tend to be Wahhabists.)
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You are (and in previous posts) trying to parse the problem in a way that is neither necessary nor helpful.
How we treat combatants returning to the west, or when you think "Islamic terror" attacks occurred is typical obscurantist nonsense. It also takes the usual west-centric approach to the problems that are inherent to Islamic ideology.
Terrorism on western targets is a minor issue in the context of the greater problem posed by Islamism. It's merely a small symptom of a far greater problem. It's also why it is actually more interesting to discuss domestic policy within Islamic countries, than it is to try to figure out why people shot up Charlie Hebdo.