Dreadsox said:
You need to be strong on two fronts. Unfortunately, I believe we are only strong on one front.
Do you think that guns are going to solve terrorism? They aren't. You can kill people, but you can't kill ideas. The death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin didn't kill Hamas; in fact, the group probably has even more support and will now get even more militant. Yassin, ironically, was "moderate" in comparison to the new leader of Hamas. And if he gets killed too? Another will take his place.
In the midst of everything, nothing in Palestine has changed. There is still 50%+ unemployment, there is still a barely functioning government, and education is still probably controlled by the extremists. The only way we are ever going to end terrorism for good is to appeal to human nature:
--Money, which means employing people in dignified jobs, not creating a sweatshop nation that can't afford the product they create. Greed, above all, is what controls humanity.
--Secular education, which, regardless of what *anyone* says, is the most *tolerant* education out of them all. As it stands, many of these nations are getting educated by religious fanatics, who merely indoctrinate them to hate everyone who isn't like them. The only reason that Europe and America isn't killing each other today is thanks to secularism, which, above all, teaches that different cultures can co-exist in the same state. That's certainly a far cry from pre-secularism, where Europe was plagued by the Papal Inquisition and it is certainly a far cry from what is going on in Muslim nations today. Organized religion has done *nothing* but polarize people.
Melon