Islamic terrorism is a result of Western policies that destabilized Muslim countries, not Islam itself.
ppl still believe this nonsense?
i should correct myself, its not ENTIRELY islam itself. Islam has some issues (namely the issue of it being more likely to be taken literally, which is very problematic), but that's also something that can be changed over time (as it has with other religions). The West has certainly done things to let extremists gain influence in the middle east, which promotes the extreme forms of Islam which are very damaging in both the Middle East and the west.
So, I think the West needs to modify its behaviors to limit these organizations power, and I think Islam needs to modernize. However, the West's policies on the whole have created a conflict with Islamists which push it further to the extreme. Islam will continue to have problems until its is more moderated in general to adjust to today's world.
You're right. But that leaves us with a very difficult choice. Do we continue to allow Muslims from the middle East into the West? Knowing that they will commit terrorist attacks or at the very least reject our values out of spite? Or do we have an immigration ban from those countries until the issues are settled?
Tricky tricky stuff. We're between a rock and a hard place.
I think that's unfair. I think in the Middle East there are a whole range of people. Some of whom are extremists, but most are not. The difficult problem is filtering them out. I think there's middle ground between open borders and an outright ban, and I think we find our solution somewhere in there.