The Fight with Religious Terrorism is a Philosophical, Multi-Generation, Winnable Battle

Posted by khalling 8 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
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"Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and others — our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin.
Terrorism is first a mindset — committing to a cause that includes a willingness to kill anonymous others indiscriminately."

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Such is what me dino was thinking while reading the article.
    Trump may wipe out ISIS. Islamic terrorism?
    After my corpse slowly turns into dust maybe.
    It is worth the effort to civilize Islam with reason, though.
    Christians no longer burn nonbelievers.
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    Posted by wiggys 8 years, 5 months ago
    I did not read much of the article because he refers to muslims as human.
    There is only one way to defeat the terrorists and that is by eliminating them. They have been a thorn in the side of humanity for several thousand years and it is time that the rest of the world woke up to that fact. The life that each of you lives today is far different than it was prior to not necessarily 9/11 but since Carter let the embassy in Iran get taken over. The governments of what is referred too as the free world have no intention of doing anything about the situation. The reason is simple "it's the money from oil"! These sort of humans are uneducated scum of the earth and have no interest in joining the rest of the world of humans. You need not look further than the Saudi rulers who I suspect are paying off the so called elected leaders of what is referred too as the free world. Would any of you want to live in Saudi Arabia?
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 5 months ago
    k; I disagree. The fight with terrorism is no different than the neighbor that refuses to trim his trees that shed prodigious dead leaves onto your property, or refuses to make his children turn their stereos down after 10 on weekday evenings. The terrorism you reference in your post is only that with which we respond. If we refuse to react in such a hyperbolic manner to their ridiculous antics, they go away.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 5 months ago
    If such a battle is multi-generational, is it worth the effort? We won't be around to see the benefits.
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  • Posted by mminnick 8 years, 5 months ago
    Suggest reading the book "Defeating Jihad" by Sebastian Gorka Ph.D Excellent book covering many of the same points.
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