RE: IS: "Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting"
May 15, 2015 at 10:07 am
Thanks for the stats, Napo. I had no idea there would be that many not-exactly-moderate muslims.
It's a situation that we have to live with. I think those numbers can only come down through proper secular education... and that comes with globalization and global awareness... but globalization also has its own plethora of problems, so it will take time... generations...
And time is running out as the main power source behind globalization - OIL - is also running out and may dry up within as little as 2 generations.
Also, there must be a local willingness to education... and that requires the educated to show the uneducated how life can be so much better with education - again, the global forces at work on a local level - perhaps it's a young guy who leaves the village to get a better education and then returns and spawns a generation of university students; or someone from the outside that shows them.... of the government that implements schools. Money is also a requirement... if the families need the labor force for sustenance, no one goes to any college and the current situation drags on... When in such dire need, youngsters seem to be easy prey for extremists as they, sometimes, pay something to the families... and things go south.
It's a situation that we have to live with. I think those numbers can only come down through proper secular education... and that comes with globalization and global awareness... but globalization also has its own plethora of problems, so it will take time... generations...
And time is running out as the main power source behind globalization - OIL - is also running out and may dry up within as little as 2 generations.
Also, there must be a local willingness to education... and that requires the educated to show the uneducated how life can be so much better with education - again, the global forces at work on a local level - perhaps it's a young guy who leaves the village to get a better education and then returns and spawns a generation of university students; or someone from the outside that shows them.... of the government that implements schools. Money is also a requirement... if the families need the labor force for sustenance, no one goes to any college and the current situation drags on... When in such dire need, youngsters seem to be easy prey for extremists as they, sometimes, pay something to the families... and things go south.
