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Originally Posted by Letum
Is that any different to other forms of terrorism?
Political, religious, ethnic, social or environmental terrorism is all justified
and motivated by ideologies. Islamic terrorism isn't exceptional in that
respect.
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It's a difference if you hijack and kill a german federal bank president in the 70s, or blow up a bus in northern Ireland for claiming that Ireland is for the Irish, or to to call the police in Spain and tell them that you are about to blow up a building in 30 minutes for you want the Bask proivince to be independent - or if you hijack four planes, kill 3000 in two hours, and implement a network around the globe that is driven by a desire and motivation to cover all the world with Islam and shatter the value system of the West. This is what djihad is about, and it hardly is just "ordinary crime".
The fight against Islamic terror necessarily is a fight against the ideology that motivates it. You cannot avoid to confront Islam over it. You cannot watch a video of 9/11, tell the americans that you feel solidaric with them - and then proclaim that "
religion has nothing to do with it". That is insane. Religion is the heart and core of the issue of Islamic terrorism - and very necessarily so. Compared to the ambition behind it, the Italian and German terror waves of the 70s are children's game, they acchieved nothing. 9/11 has changed everything, and Madrid and London. Plus the attempted attacks that got prevented. If it would have been ignored, we would have had many thousands people more being killed by djihad in the West since 9/11.
However, although I feel that Goldorak probably disagrees with me on the above, we both agree on that even this djihad-form of terrorism (which I indeed do not compare to other terrorism we have seen in the past 30 years) cannot be fought with tehcnology and wars exclusively, but that good policework, intel-gathering, infiltration, are key to prevent djihad terror striking with single attacks. There are times for military action, too, but I think these get overestimated, and where carried out, they nevertheless are underperformed.