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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Your point is valid, but we've been told for years now to look at areas like the Philippines as an example of predominantly muslim areas where it is peaceful and there's no extremist views. That is now proving to be false, and the only way ISIS even gets a foothold there is because there are lot of people sympathetic to their cause. The Philippines will end up becoming another Syria, Iraq, etc. etc. etc., where there will be a full out war of ideas with the extremists likely gaining more power, and then a pushback from a pseudo-dictator like Duterte who will create a military state like Assad did.
There is an idealogical war happening with ALL muslims across the globe at the moment. Unfortunately, the war is between bad ideas, and extremely bad and dangerous ideas. There's no winner at the end of all this, but the far left liberals keep talking about the hope of moderate countries like the Philippines in an effort to remain politically correct. It's foolish to believe it will work out the way we want it to.
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Extremism is a problem everywhere and with every religion. This is not isolated to Islam. The largest terror threat the the United States is still homegrown, and much of it from Christian Nationalists.
“Law enforcement agencies in the United States consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalized Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence that they face,” the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security reported this past June, based on surveys of 382 law enforcement groups.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/r...ts-422743.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/o...reat.html?_r=0
https://www.adl.org/news/press-relea...reat-in-the-us
A good primer on the threat.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/extr...ads/Gumbel.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/...mic-terrorism/
Extremism is growing problem for government, but also in government.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/...w-enforcement/
The media is doing a disservice by not covering this issue with the same veracity it does of the radical Islamic threat.
http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-e...adi-dangerous/
https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/...sm-in-america/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-great...ver-talk-about