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I don't think you are an idiot, you are quite compassionate but you only see one side of the story.
Religion is the curse of the world and we don't need more brainwashed people in this country regardless of whether they are likeable or not.
The trouble that the brainwashed people have caused in other countries is a warning of what will happen here if they get a hold and it already has. Monis et al are out there just waiting.
There really is no reason for me to take one side of the story. If I have to pick a side, I'd just pick the side the media and most of our politicians are ramming on us.
For me to say that wait, maybe Islam and Muslims aren't all crazed terrorists mean I've looked from both sides already. What with not being a Muslim and all.
Like you, I would rather there aren't any religion. And we can mock and poke holes into Islam and any other religion and Creation stories when we bother to. But it is very different to basically condemning a group of people with all the horrific stuff some people who look and sound, profess to follow the same religion as they do... that's a step too far.
I mean, would we like it if, say, other people start blaming us for being crazy Christian by pointing to a few, you know, crazy Christian they see?
With regards to Monis and other Muslims... What our leadership have done is give crazy Muslims an excuse to make their crime more "noble" than what it is. So when Monis, a Muslims with criminal, murder, and a bunch of stuff he's about to be locked up for... instead of killing himself or go to prison... he use Islam and Jihad as a pretext to going crazy.
That's not to say there won't be actual terrorism by political/war terrorist from actual ISIS and other groups, all done by die hard Muslim Jahadist. But there is a difference between an act of war through terrorism than merely some Muslim whose domestic issues pushes him to the edge.