Twitter "debate" on Islam

[King_Charles]

...and how the western backing of authoritarian reigimes in the middle east because they opposed popular Islamist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood which the West felt were dangerous to their values pushed many mainsteam Islamist into more hardline movements.

Not that I want to endorse the nonsense about terrorist attacks being the West's fault - they are not. But the irrational fear in the West of political Islam is one of the most dangerous feautres of the minsteam western political thought at present.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I'd be really eager to expand upon what you already have brought up... the notion of a particular stand of fundamentalism being responsible for most of the intolerance and terrorism being espoused by theists today.

Me too,beginning with definitions of 'terrorism' and "most 'and accompanied by hard evidence to support that claim.

I reckon a pretty good argument could be made for a claim that the US is the biggest perpetrator of terrorist acts today.

Terrorism is ancient and legitimate tool of war. Once you accept war as legitimate means to an end,ultimately there is no such thing as an illegitimate weapon.

We owe the early church thinker Augustine of Hippo for inventing the obscene fatuity of 'the just war'

[Angrboda]

Well, maybe there's some debate about whether to ban Islam, but I think we can all agree to ban the politicians....