ISIS: Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead!

[Husar]

Pakistan has been an uninterrupted democracy since partition. Of its own accord, it has become drastically more religiously conservative since the 1970s, to the point where atheists cannot publicly declare themselves without risk to their life, and the state has imposed capital punishment for blasphemy. If it's all the fault of the west, and particularly Britain, explain why Pakistan has become so.

Perhaps it just doesn't exist in a vacuum? There'd be no racism in Britain if only Britain existed. Although, perhaps the Northumbrians would then think the Wessexians (?) were subhuman or so...Why is Estonia suddenly afraid of Russian invasion? Did it accidentally radicalize regardless of the happenings in Ukraine?

Islam as a religion goes beyond borders. There are Christians in Germany who are more afraid of persecution because persecution of Christians happens in Asia and Africa every day. They don't just live in a vacuum and ignore what happens to people they associate with elsewhere.
The same applies to terrorism. The attacks in the UK, France and Germany tend to put all of Europe on altert to some extent and not just the affected country. So if you invade every other muslim country, you think the others will just shrug and ignore it?

The real problem of course, is how to fix it now. I agree with you to some extent that in some situations it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't thing. In some of those it might just be about what we do or how we do it though. Supporting thugs and dictators with weapons to "help" because it's cheaper/easier may not be the kind of help people were asking for for example.