I was actually making a paralel with the cetral asian history. Ie the general way to subdue the people there (the way I cannot support in the modern times due to its unethical means of attaining the ends) was:
- kill everyone apart from the too old (who will die before transfering their culture to the young) and the too young. The term for this was to kill "everyone taller than the sword (placed in the ground)" I think.
- indoctrinate the young.
However for obvious reasons (informational freedom) nowadays one has to completely irradicate the culture and thus perform essentially the genocyde, even considering how much did the humanity improve the indoctrination methods.
Thus such method while attaining the objective (removing hostile culture without killing everyone) is still unethical as it still requires physical removal for a substantial percentage of population. And thus I cannot advocate it.
The reason why I bring it up at all, is because (atleast to me) radical islamism appears to have a lot of common points with the medevill era culture stuff, thus one can look at the historic paralels as part of pure academic line of thought.
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