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Originally Posted by Charlatan
A good point. I do hear them personally and have read their comments in articles but is it really their job to mount massive protests? Perhaps it is but I am not sure how much good it would do other than to make westerners feel good.
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So we are to embrace "moderate" Muslims and tone down our reactions, even though they are really powerless to make a difference where it matters? Really a 'pro-peace' type of rally would be nice, Islam is in need of some PR that doesn't include 'bomb', 'riot', or 'woman charged' in the head line.
I'm also going to have to question the conventional logic that our actions 'create' terrorists. Outside of a movie of the week moment where ones family is killed by an errant US bomb, one doesn't just go from 'well both sides need to work out their issues' to 'KILL THE INFIDELS!'
The roots of radicalism are already there, from the, shall we say 'creative' history they get to sermons of hate they get daily. If you can forgive the Goodwin, the closest equivalent in the West would have been the Hitler Youth, only that was more organized but far less deep.
So the question becomes how do you proceed with millions of young men, taught to hate, and who's governments foster said hate for various reasons?
If I still believed in God it would be a sort of Loki, because it would take a God like that to then put in this region a vast quantity of the energy needed by the rest of the world.