Quote: DaButt @ 4th June 2017, 5:58 PMTens of thousands of Muslims have left good jobs and families behind to fight in Iraq and Syria and countless other countries.
There are 1.5 billion Muslims so ten thousand equates to 0.00000067% of the Muslim population. Apply that percentage to the American population and you get just over 2. But more importantly, I don't know any Muslims that would say these fighters were true Muslims. If ISIS said they were all Americans would that make them so ?
Quote: Davida @ 8th June 2017, 2:52 AMDoes it really make sense to stigmatize, discriminate against, deport etc. Muslims who are not terrorists...........military intervention and new policy based in xenophobic thinking doesn't solve anything. Pretty sure it makes things measurably worse.
If you remember the IRA initially had us believe their power struggle was due to the religious divisions between North and South, rather than about the wealth divide and power struggles. It came to an end once the wealth divided had narrowed to as close as it had ever been. Thatcher's hard line made it worse, and Blair's "lets talk" resolved it.
The solution now is not to alienate the Muslim community with prejudice, that is what ISIS are encouraging. How else can a tiny ISIS army defeat the massive world army, other than setting us against ourselves. So ironically the likes of Trump are helping them, with his hate mongering.
The solution is to work with the Muslim community to catch the enemy within. You will note from recent terrorist attacks, so many protagonist had been informed on by relatives or Mosque members. You do not get more committed to a cause that ratting on your own son. The recent failures are believed to be down to a lack of Policing resource, so we need to put more funding that way and keep kicking hate preachers (on both sides) off their perches.