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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=jsteele][quote=Muslima]Great points! Terrorism is always used to send a message, not to solve an issue.[/quote]

As I've said before, terrorism is often used -- as the communists used to say -- to "heighten the contradictions", meaning to create a backlash that will widen divisions between groups. The terrorists' greatest nightmare is for Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and members of other religions to stand in unity against the terrorists' methods. Their goal is to have non-Muslims attacking Muslims in retaliation and pushing more Muslims into the extremists' camp.

With that in mind, going to court and winning a case would be the exact opposite of what the terrorists want because that would show that Muslims can work within the system. They prefer to have pissed off French people fire-bombing mosques.
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This is true. The bigger the gap between West and East, the easier it is to recruit people to their cause. What ISIS and organizations like them are good at is selling a dream. If you are a young Muslim living in the West, and already feel ostracized, or misunderstood, going through a crisis of identity and questioning everything in life, at this point where you are vulnerable, here comes ISIS telling you we have the solution to all of your problems. Look at how the government is treating you in France, look at all of your brothers and sisters that they have killed. You have to join the cause and be part of the caliphate, that is the only way to move forward. Then they tell you  stories about the golden times of Islam when Muslims ruled the world , had a caliphate and how everything was amazing. If you are vulnerable, it is very easy to fall for it, they make you want to be part of it , part of the "change" and they make you believe in the change, and in the establishment of the caliphate as the sole source of happiness for all Muslims in the world. [/quote]

Sure.  But maybe in addition to trying to educate us about them, you should try to teach them that all they will get from acting like murderous thugs is that they will be treated like murderous thugs. [/quote]

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