Terrorism in Europe and the United States

[SvennoJ]

shavenferret said:

SvennoJ said:

Read the rest, ignoring the root causes will fuel terrorism indefinitely.

However the problem is made out to be much worse than it actually is, which reinforces the cycle. Both giving reasons for terrorists to keep acting out (it gets the media's attention) and for people to be fine with their freedom/privacy getting taken further away.

There's a reason suicides are not reported on, the Werther effect. Doesn't mean the problem is ignored. 

Fact is, people just love chaos, drama, spectacle, outrage, which a terrorist attack all provide. And terrorists do it for the attention it garners.

The french are very welcoming to other people, except that they are almost radically liberal in that they prefer a secular society.  Muslims tend to take their religion much more seriously than do western people and so it becomes a bigger part of their lives/society than their western counterparts (or christians).  

When somebody insults that, they ended up getting so angry that killing people was the only solution, and i hope that they got the death penalty for that.  For you to say that this was either justified or only understandable on their part is a horrible mentality and i can't respect that.  Similar opinions and statements are enabling terrorism.  And you sir, are a part of the problem.  

Finally, I feel that both christians and muslims should receive some amount of satire thrown their way, so that this criticism will liberalize these two beliefs.  

So, i feel that CH did a good thing, and that it was evil that the terrorists should do this.  

It's never justified, but understanding the reasons helps prevent future attacks. That's not enabling terrorism, getting freaked out over terrorism is enabling terrorism. Letting terrorism achieve its purpose.