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In reply to the discussion: It's really, really hard to talk about radical Islamic terrorism [View all]L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)When the USA invaded Iraq with shock and awe, didn't everyone in the USA become a violent extremist and terrorist?
There is no distinction between religion and other belief systems, in the sense that an ideology one believes in leads to actions one takes. To distinguish religion as the problem instead of ideology is a matter of parsing terminology.
If the truth should be spoken here as you say, the USA and their religion of imposing democracy on oil rich countries is the worst case of violent ideology in the world today, killing the most people and causing the most mayhem and terrorizing the most people, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Libya, to Syria, .... with millions of victims.
Do the body count. Religious faiths don't have military bases spread across the globe. Let's get real and speak truth.