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Originally posted by WarChild
Absolutely agree.
Islam is not a violent religion. It's warm and loving. It has problems, especially in regards to Women's rights, but none the less mostly a peaceful religion.
Islamic extremists are hijacking a peaceful religion. This is generating hate towards all Muslims.
I honestly belive the only way to truley solve the Terrorist problem, is for the moderate Islamic world to raise up and collectively say "No longer in our name".
Islam, as I understand it, is a realitvely new religion still. Where as Christianity has already undergone an evolution (for the most part) from the days of crusades, Islam has not yet.
I do not think we can kill the Terrorist problem. It has to be bred out. Hopefully it isn't pushed to the point of "us vs. them" before such change can naturally happen.
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I know nothing about Islam, the Koran (Qu'ran?), Muslims etc. I do know they have to clean their own backyard on a lot of issues.
I think there are two seperate issues here which you and a lot of other people are melding into one. There is 1) there own backyard (just as we have our own backyard problems) and 2) international relations - that is, how the Arab world is dealt with compared to Israel by powerful nations such as America. I think this is where you're seeing the terrorist problem coming from. Not the fact that they degrade women. We have no involvement with there ways as it stands. Our politicians will say that we're over there to change those things, but it's not (but it's a convincing pretense apparently to many Americans). We're there for political reasons like financial gain, and nothing more.