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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Latin America has been destabilized and poor throughout most of its history but there's no Chileans committing terror acts.
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Are you talking about Chilean or Central American terrorists committing acts of terrorism outside of their respective countries? If not, then Chile for example has a long history of terrorism including a subway bombing in 2014 by an anarchist group. The Puerto Rican independence group FALN committed several terrorist attacks in the US during the 70s and 80s.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
2) How does it explain that everywhere Islamic societies borders with non-Islamic societies we have radicalized violence? Not only in the Middle East, but in Nigeria, Chad, Kenya, India, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines? Why aren't the Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists in those regions blowing themselves up and slaughtering civilians?
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There's a lot of nuance here. There are Christian terrorist groups in these countries; the Ilaga in the Philippines, the Anti-Balaka in the Central African Republic, the National Liberation Front of Tripura in India, the NSCN in India and Burma. There is a Hindu extremist group in India, Abhinav Bharat, responsible for the Malegaon bombings in 2006. The SPCD in Burma encouraged violence in the name of Buddhism, and similar instances in South East Thailand in response to Islamic separatists
My point isn't that current Islamic terrorism should get a free pass because other terrorism happens too, but rather that each group/tribe/belief will have a population of extremists and it's not helpful to simplify their motives while attributing their actions to the entire population of those groups.
Globally popular terrorism ideologies change through time. Today it's Islamic. Almost 1000 years ago it was Catholic. Regionally, these ideas vary. Who's to say what it'll be next.