CitizenTID
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By "preventative measures," I didn't think of military measures once. It means for the relevant agencies to assess the root of these mindsets and erase it without tip-toeing around it the whole time.I suspect if you look on Westboro Baptist Church members facebook, you'll find ludicrously inflammatory statements.
Reacting from the lunatic fringe serves no purpose other than to please and reinforce the lunatics.
What Islam could do with is Saudi Arabia and Iran not being at loggerheads permanently, not the west to steam in with "preventative measures", whatever that might be (I'm unsure, can such measures be measured in explosive power?)
Westboro Baptist Church allegedly have 40 members they are not of any note outside of a local scale and it's potential to spread through the Christian world is also of no note. Dominant-Intent Islam is on an international, global-wide scale (bar the Americas and Europe where mindsets are at a community level, in larger numbers than one place of worship). This is what I mean by knocking our heads together and realising the reality of the situation and assessing it objectively. Look at this scale:
When the right scale is at the bottom, hate speech is too much and the counter-viewpoint is also at it's extreme. There you have a very tense situation nobody benefits from apart from the people with the agendas. Your post to me is a bit unbalanced, it's not objective and is more in-line with being overly cautious about accepting the realities (using your post merely as an example, not presuming your mindset). What I'm saying is we need both viewpoints to the issue balanced, then we are "on the money" about the problem and in a position to fix it. In complex issues like this, the average person will rarely be "on the money," so instead of a keenness to attack someone with a different viewpoint, people need to help rebalance their scale, but they can only do that by helpful and understanding influence, attacking them alienates them and stokes their views further. My point here is the kind of stance Colin Parry took with the IRA.
*It's important to note in these situations choice of words can easily be misinterpreted also and the wrong ones may be used (happens in any conversation but people pick up on it in these matters and tend to enhance meaning). E.G. By "dominant-intent Islam" I mean countries where Islamic beliefs dominate law and society (such as Saudi Arabia).
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