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Let's not bring peace and stand for justice by waging war and first committing violence against those we think would commit senseless violence on us.
Iuutzu, you asked me for some solutions and I have outlined 3 possible ways.
I advocate the good way and am practising it in my debate with you.
The other two ways will be advocated and enacted by other people - as already demonstated in Central African Republican – a place where the rule of law was already weak and which made it possible for lawless ‘Christians’ to do what they did. Obviously I am not condoning their violent behavior. However, it is a taste of the sort of thing that could spread elsewhere if attempts to solve the problem the ‘good’ way are stifled.
This is why the protection of our freedom of speech is so vital. It’s the only peaceful option open to us but I believe it is a very powerful option.
Unfortunately we have a political class who are running scared. I think most of them who publicly claim that “Islam is a religion of Peace” are lying. They are in the public arena and will often be physically at risk so they act cowardly. In other words, Islam has already terrorized them into partial submission.
But if this continues it will have undesired consequences. By behaving cowardly the political class is failing to give the more right wing element a voice for their concerns and are not offering them any solutions. This is already breeding a great deal of resentment. Hence there are groups like the English Defence League in the UK and PEGIDA in Europe.