I wouldn't say I'm categorically not worried about terrorism in the age of ISIS, I think that's a bit silly to have absolutely no caution over it. At the same time though, I don't let it dominate my life. I'm not going to let the threat scare me into not doing things I want to do or into not travelling. If they decide today is the day the want to kill me, fuck it, I'd rather that than live a life scared into submission (which is what they want).
I think the OP makes a lot of good points. It's not enough to oppose the terrorist-wing of Islamism, the extreme lack of secularism across "The Muslim world" (I hate calling it that) is relevant and probably part of the reason there's so much Islamic terror in relation to every other religion. Even if countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran claim not to support terror (which I don't fully believe), they still help it, because they legitimize the idea of a religion-led state and the infallibility of religious law systems. Religious terror is not going to disappear while there are still states that have that much religious involvement in their political affairs.
I think the OP makes a lot of good points. It's not enough to oppose the terrorist-wing of Islamism, the extreme lack of secularism across "The Muslim world" (I hate calling it that) is relevant and probably part of the reason there's so much Islamic terror in relation to every other religion. Even if countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran claim not to support terror (which I don't fully believe), they still help it, because they legitimize the idea of a religion-led state and the infallibility of religious law systems. Religious terror is not going to disappear while there are still states that have that much religious involvement in their political affairs.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
