Some Action Must Be Taken

sp1814 | 10:29 Thu 23rd Mar 2017 | News

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After a terrorist attack, some people say that 'action must be taken', and that 'the West must wake up'.

These are abstracts - can anyone explain in (without the use of abstractions) what specifically they mean by 'action'.

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Kromovaracun

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At risk of sounding all "elitist".... The elephant in the room here is that very, very few of us are really qualified to make a judgement about effective security policies. It could be that "banning muslims" (to take a common example) or forcibly closing mosques would reduce our risk of terror attacks to 0. It's equally plausible that it wouldn't, because...

14:11 Thu 23rd Mar 2017

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Khandro

andy-hughes; //Persecuting Islamists simply underlines their perception that they are persecuted already, by the infidel West//

Ohh! we can't have that can we? -poor things.

andy-hughes

Khandro - if you can't make an adult contribution, puerility simply clutters up the thread and is best offered elsewhere.

Kromovaracun

Talbot - that's all that's in your power to do.

I know that's an uncomfortable fact, but it's true, and it's one that we need to get used to if we're going to be honest about the problem of terrorism.

-Talbot-

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Some Action Must Be Taken

I say stop all faith schools now.
Why is a bad thing to stop schools of indoctrination?

andy-hughes

Talbot - // Why is a bad thing to stop schools of indoctrination? //

Because it is making an unfounded assumption that all faith schools are hotbeds of radicalism.

My wife was Deputy Head of a faith school, no-one got radicalised there.

Khandro

a-h ; ^^ Unless you have been keeping a very big secret from us, I bet it wasn't a Muslim faith school. Have you any idea what is taught in these places? There are children who finish their education without ever having spoken to, or made contact with an English child during their whole time.
So much for integration.

-Talbot-

Religion should be a choice, AH