One thing is for sure, we won't rid the world of ISIS continuing with the same approach that allowed it to grow in the first place. You don't put a fire out by throwing petrol on it! What we should do in my opinion is adopt a novel (for the west) approach of not intervening. The twin towers attack was designed to encourage retaliation as extremists knew that intervention would propel the rise of their beliefs and further interventions sustain it.
Firstly, in Syria we are confused about who our enemy is. This is providing a vacuum that actually helps ISIS. We have to hold our noses, but the answer is to stop supporting the jihadist-led Syrian insurgency and stop supporting the regional allies (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc) that are also supporting it. The solution to destroying ISIS in the region is going to come from the Syrian regime that America has been stupidly trying to overthrow.
America should stop supporting the sectarian Shi’ite government in Iraq and force Baghdad to compromise with the Iraqi Sunnis they have been brutally persecuting for a decade. Whilst ISIS has Sunni origins, the Sunni tribes do not necessarily support them and by taking away a bigger reason to fight, the Sunni tribes would be more likely to turn against ISIS as they did in 2006. This will give the terrorists fleeing Syria nowhere to run.
The West should stop directly bombing Syria and Iraq. These attacks massacre civilians, and thereby only strengthen ISIS. Society is as a result, weakened and less capable of resisting the hardened extremists. Plus, more Muslim youth are thus radicalized by atrocity and more susceptible to extremist recruitment. ISIS wants us to attack it. Why haven't any of our leaders understood that it is best not to do what your enemy wants you to.
The Middle East has loads of problems, but western intervention there never ends well. Why not try not intervening!
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Theses types will always be here.
The types will always be around.
Such a sad sad pointless waste of life. Why do people have so much mis-guided hate within them? You get psychopaths ... That's just unfortunate human biology that sometimes happens. This is obviously beyond that.
I utterly detest religion. Sorry but I do. In particular times like this. Yes.
Life is precious and religion can, in a lot of cases, curve an angle to suggest that it is not so precious, even to the person believing in the religion itself. They are all living in a dream world. I'm talking religion as a whole. It kills people. The same morons would still find another excuse to kill even if religion didn't exist? Yes.
It's also education.
Teaching young people the harsh reality of what is real and what is not real from a young age.
Sad to all people that don't or never did have that privelidge.
How do you stop acts of terrorism? You can try and understand it for one thing. Get as much Intel as possible.
Well that's a question.
How was Hitler stopped?
In a very unfortunate way that was unkind to the people that had to sacrifice their lives.
War.
I fear for the world at the moment.
And sadly, you can't stop that.
i.e. the craziest nation is Russia why cant they be the size of San Marino
i.e. all the oil is in the Middle East, why cant it be in New Zealand or Iceland with it all operated so that it doesnt ruin the scenery
Ditch the idea of the "Lone Wolf"
That's an archaic idea, and when entire organisations are encouraging people to take up arms and fight as individuals then the concept no longer exists.
Starve them of publicity
Impossible nowadays, but look at Twitter in the last 12 hours: there's enough footage that your imagination doesn't need to fill in the gaps anymore. Essentially social medias gruesome obsession with sharing footage and imagery from these attacks is giving ISIS a propaganda machine and PR department that money simply cant buy.
Integration. Integration. Integration.
Whitechapel. Luton. Rotherham. Etc Etc.
These areas provide the perfect conditions to facilitate isolation and radicalisation, and provide a barrier to a younger generation from taking on the identity that's on their passport. You can't demand that people identify with the country they live in, when they actually live in a very specific pocket with a different culture and set of values.
Discussions without fear
Regardless of your viewpoint, you should be able to share it. I'm not talking about EDL types that want to go out and picket a mosque, but I mean those who are afraid of speaking out about certain things for fear of being labelled xenophobic or islamophobic. It isn't wrong to make an observation about another group of people; in fact the fear of being called out as Islamophobic has actively stopped people reporting things to the police. (I believe it transpired that the 7/7 bombers had a bleached garden from the Peroxide they were using, and the neighbours has also made other peculiar observations: when asked why this wasn't reported they claimed they didn't want to appear judgemental.) This attitude breeds a frustration that will - in turn - tip over to anger, and potentially violence.
One of the top intelligence bods in France said only 2 days ago that he's under the impression that France is currently on the "knife-edge" of a "far-right backlash" that could lead to "civil war". This is arguably our primary concern - not the terrorism itself, but knee-jerk reactions which will turn in to something bloody and nasty.
I like the thoughts of "Maajid Nawaz" on this, he ran off to fight in Bosnia to defend the Muslims during the Yugoslav war. He knows about extremism and has had his own tough story. He now runs a counter-extremism think-tank.
If you consistently deny that these issues are more prevalent in the Muslim community, and are actively furthered using propaganda based around the Islamic faith, then you can't defeat the problem. Admit it, These terrorists are Muslims is a very good article he wrote on this topic, I'd fully advise you to read it (and think about his background) before you hit the "Flag" button.
The Muslim community needs to actively be involved in this, and that is going to mean no more "He wasn't a real Muslim" responses.
You'll be telling me next that the IRA never got rid of all their kit...
The Kurds are doing an excellent job in pushing Isis back and they put emphasis on how much the air strikes have helped them, they'd probably be defeated if they didn't have that help. It's a sad situation the amount of deaths and civilian casualties but I get the impression a lot of these captured civilians would rather be dead than be under Isis control any longer. They're animals.
Personally I think we need to help the Kurdish army with boots on the ground and supplying some more ammunition. At the same time we need to cut off their funding, punish countries buying oil etc from isis. This will hit them the hardest
We can start by stop pretending that "we are better than them".
The money goes into banks and its BILLIONs-----stop it hold it starve the scum.
They go in and out via Turkey the World knows it so stop their routes in and out.
Radio yesterday that criminals in UK prisions are being radicialised and prision offocers are doing nothing afraid of being reported as racists-----fuck that -- sort it out or we get the issue here for DECADES
Integration ? you mean like the Human Rights Act----Anti Racism laws---Positive Discrimination---they dont give a rats shit about any of that.
What country under Islam is FREE in the western understanding of the word ? to the nearest NONE how many churches have been built in an Islamic country in the last 20 years ? How many mosques (to the nearest hunderds)have been built in EUROPE in the last 20 years ??? Intregration that works both ways.
The Cult offers you NOTHING except pain, domination,suppression, and death show them those as FACTS