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Originally Posted by Stobey
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Stobey,
I do not mean this in a disrespectful way, nor do I wish to start a religious debate, however I don't believe replacing one god for another to be much of a strategy.
As soon as one points to ones own religion as the
true religion what ground has been made? The opposition also believes that they know the
truth.
As TR outlined above it is the people who preach the violence as well as the weak minded who absorb it and act on it that are equally the enemy. Most religions can be perverted to justify violence against another group.
We seem to have painted ourselves into a corner with how to handle these so called religious leaders. We believe in freedom of speech and the limited role in government to censor that speech, yet we know that these clerics are using their teachings to recruit terrorists.
Do we put a microscope on them and try to pull them off the street for anything we can, for example using the IRS to target them for audits? I would like to see that but it doesn't seem to be a good answer without opening the floodgates for more government in all of our lives.
I'm sure hell will freeze over before this happens, but the only way I see this ever ending is if a couple things change.
1. The muslim world truly turns on the radicalized not just lip service and oust them from their societies.
2. The conservative Islamic nations go through an enlightenment period that emerges more western values. (I'm not saying that all western values are de facto better rather that if these places adopted more western values there would be less appetite for death and destruction. A playboy and blue jeans kind of strategy)