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Badassbab on 22 April 2013
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fillet said:
Proclus said:
I'm going to be extremely unpopular by saying this, but so be it, I'm entitled to my opinion like everyone else:

Stop mass bombing ordinary citizens, families and just general regular Muslims. Far too many innocent people have been killed during wars (Ill conceived wars or otherwise) due to either incompetence or unwillingness.

General bad attitude towards Muslims doesn't help either, bombing cities in the so called quest for their freedom and then doing a half-assed job or not at all to rebuild the cities and help the citizens generates a huge amount of animosity.

I think perhaps certain individuals join these radical groups over nothing more than a general dislike for Americans created during the Bush and Obama regime.

Just my honest thoughts.

You'll be more popular than my thoughts.

I basically mirror yours but the polar oppisite.

Without Muslims we wouldn't have these bombings/terrorims/acts of evil/disgusting people.

That's sounds stupid and narrow minded I know that, but at the end of the day, what can you do. You have a religion that has a substantial fringe that isn't being dealt with by their own people. Most Muslims although maybe not sympathetic to this fringe (I actually believe they are though, but that's purely speculation as I don't know enough to make such public general comment officially and I don't want to be attacked by the politically correct) certainly look away from the problem.

There's not enough of a voice from the Muslim religion as a whole condemning the terrorist acts - i.e murdering innocent people.

Look here now we have people like you who I guess aren't of Muslim faith looking for logical answers of what WE as westerners can do.

That says it all, I'm yet to see any statement from any Muslim EVER making such a sensible post/statement on the internet or in public who isn't politically motivated to make such a remark - and they only say it to quell the people like me complaining that they don't as a one off.

If there was such group in the moderate area, we wouldn't have the problem we face and I wouldn't need to make such posts as this.

 

(not having a dig at you at all in the above, just your post caught my eye)

The lopsided 'The Third Jihad' was made by a so called devout American Arab Muslim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUub1no1qw 

Personally I don't see how you could be a truly devout Muslim and make that documentary. Might as well just admit Islam (and other religions) have no place in the 21st century and become atheist Richard Dawkins style (minus the bigotry). 

I agree with both you and Proclus. Western terror (and that's what it is) contributes to rising Islamic terror but Islamic terror must be fought as it is such a terrible clerical fascist ideology that wishes to impose it's belief on others by force but it cannot be fought with military might alone, there needs to be a comprehensive review of Western Foreign policy in the region, it's been pretty atrocious. You don't exactly have an Iraqi tank, foot soldier, fighter bomber and attack helicopter outside your window do you? And one of the main contributors of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism has been Saudi Arabia, a major Western ally for the last 60 odd years and has been under the security umbrella of the US for that time too. How ironic is that?