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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blaming it on a few passages is a lazy explanation. It's easier than considering the social and economic difficulties that turn disenfranchised people into monsters.

Religion is the excuse that power hungry assholes use to motivate people with nothing to lose. All of you blaming religion are falling for the ruse. Stop being so unbelievably gullible. You're not 5 years old. Use some critical thought.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/the_nonwarm_and_fuzzy_guide_to_understanding_terrorism.html[/quote]

Religion is their motivation, their excuse, their reason.   As for "critical thought," while you are crying over the "economic and socially disenfranchised" who commit these acts, they are plotting to kill you, your family, your friends. If they don't kill you, they want you/your wife in a burka. Your children to become fighters.

I pray that those who are in a position of power will act swiftly and justly. [/quote]

Religion obviously has a role, just as religion plays a role in Israel and many other places. But, the people in ISIS didn't just wake up one day and decide they wanted to establish Islam worldwide. ISIS is much different than other groups we have confronted. It is very interested in capturing territory and establishing a country. It grew out of those who were powerless within the countries in which they lived (primarily Syria and Iraq). Islam -- more specifically Wahhabi Islam -- has been a useful ideology, but is not the driver. Attacks like those in Paris, Beirut, and against the Russian aircraft are aimed at those who are attacking them. They are seen as defensive, aimed at stopping the attacks not spreading Islam.

Over simplifying or misrepresenting the situation leads to solutions which at best are ineffective and at worst inflame things even more. To defeat ISIS, you have to understand it accurately.
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