Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
I don't really think of islam at all in my thinking. You are determined to find that it's all about islam. That's your hobby horse. So are you saying if they all converted to Christianity or Hinduism, the problem would go away?

It's nonsense. Let's look at it empirically. If islam causes people to be violent and warring, and the absence of islam removes this and makes people more peaceful - we would expect countries with large islamic populations to be violent and warring. We would also expect the biggest and most violent wars of the last 100 years to be amongst islamic nations.
If we look at empirically we would note that, currently, Islamic terrorists are unique in a number of ways:

they usually plan to die in their attacks.

They tend to attack soft civilian targets with no military or strategic value.

They are constantly planning attacks on the US and Europe whether or not we are actively fighting their particular organisation or not.

Attacks aim not only to cause terror, but also maximise casualties.

The closest I can come to this sort of MO would be Communists during the last century, but even then the Isalmic terrorists are not the same.

Remember, from the point of view of Westerners this all started with 9/11, an unprovoked attack which led to a punitive war, which led to another war which lead to more terrorists attacks, breakdown in Iraq, then we had the Arab Spring which we failed to support (and initially tried to stop) and now we have IS.

Islamism has been bubbly in the background though, trying to kill us and establish a new Caliphate, all this time.

So you should think about Islam.