Escaped ISIS Hostage after 10 months tells how to defeat ISIS

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He doesn't offer any real solution, though, except to "engage the local people." What does that even mean and how does he suppose we go about doing it? Meanwhile, Isis continues to kill innocent people every day.

The solution is to fight the idea, not the people.


You see if we fight fire with fire, we are playing in to their trap. That's what they want. For us to bomb them so that they can turn around and say "See I told you that they just think all Muslims are the same, they hate you! Come join us". If we close our doors off to them out of fear, we are doing exactly what they want, that's how they get people, they push this idea that everyone else hates them, and that's how they get people to join them, that's how they market themselves as the "good guys".

Look at the third quote. 
"refugees fleeing the Muslim “dreamland” and being welcomed in the lands of “unbelievers” had given a lie to their message of western hatred towards Muslims, he said."

Obviously the easy thing to do is to act with violence back, to just bomb them. However, as hard as it may be, we need to welcome those fleeing from ISIS, we need to focus on fighting the propaganda and not the people, and the propaganda is that Western Civilization and other peoples hate Muslims, and view them as all the same, so we need to change that, we need to show the local peoples, that we do not hate them, and will accept them, and do not generalize. The reason we need to focus on the local peoples is because if we don't attempt to change the idea that they have of Western civilization they will become the ISIS of tomorrow. So it doesn't matter, even if we kill the right people[ISIS], because it simply feeds the propaganda they are pushing, and in the end is more counter-productive, because it justifies joining ISIS as we've given them a reason to view those extremists as the good guys, because in their mind when we bomb them, we become the extremists.

“It would be for the international community to take the decision that all the Syrian regions that are held by the opposition are no-fly zones; no-fly zones for everybody. Not the coalition, not the Russians, not the regime. Nobody. So, actually to provide security to the people would be devastating for Isis and this is what the international community should focus on,” he said.