Quote from: Hubbs on Feb 03, 2016, 05:49:18 PM
Quote from: broughtpain on Feb 03, 2016, 07:44:00 AM
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4734194129001/police-chiefs-from-around-us-testify-on-growing-isis-threat/?#sp=show-clips
The numbers aren't a laughing matter. Think about the groups in France and the damage done there.
Sadly, nobody has a plan beyond the definition of insanity to address the problem.
And most just get let into western countries under the disguise of being refugees, yet still people champion it. There is nothing you can do to stop it, people won't understand until it too late.
That's not why at all. There's a disconnect as you want to label all immigrants as the same and not as complicated, diverse groups of individuals - you know, the opposite way to how we treat Westerners. Vilifying and demonizing refugees and immigrants won't change anything for the better - it actually has the opposite effect!
And the saddest part of the whole thing is that Muslim immigrants and Libyan and Syrian refugees condemn and hate ISIS and their like more than anyone. They protest and oppose radicalized Islamist Islam more than anyone, even though media barely covers that part at all. Gets drowned in the sidelines as it is more interesting to focus on the terrorists rather than the actual victims.
They, regular Middle-Easterners (be it Muslim, Christian, be it Syrian, Libyan, Kurd, Iraqi) are the main ground forces fighting them "back home". ISIS/ISIL are the main reason they fled in the first place. They got their families harassed, terrorized and killed by those assholes, their homes bombed and their lives ruined. They hate them. Yet we focus on this absolute minority of psychotic crazies, these groups of radicalized individuals and think that it's ok and defensible to let them represent all Middle-Easterners/Muslims in the world, and for some heartless reason especially focusing on the ones in need. That's just inhumane and shows a total lack of empathy and it's a huge double-standard, and it won't solve the problem one bit - it'll just make it worse as you give into ISIS's agenda, which is to start some apocalyptic BS war between "the right kind of Muslims" and the rest of the world.
There are other ways to fight disguised terrorists than discrediting, discriminating, vilifying and alienating entire civilian populations. No? We're already fighting together on the ground with people from the region against ISIS in these war zones, why not doing the same here in the West?