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In reply to the discussion: Islam, as it is practiced by a majority of muslims in the world, is a regressive force. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)historically, imagery like that is exactly the kind of thing that leaders who want wars use to create war fever.
And that you've focused on Islam as a religion rather on other factors...such as the fact that the customs you and I both denounce in the countries called "Muslim" existed before those countries were Islamic(sadly, they existed when most of the Arab world was Christian, which by itself discredits the idea, held by some, that crushing Islam as a set of religious traditions would end those customs and turn those countries into bastions of liberal tolerance).
There is cultural work for change, a cultural reformation led by people in the Arab/Muslim world, that is needed.
As to getting those countries anathemized...well, nice thought, but most of them have oil. How likely is it that we'd see politicians anywhere in "the West" taking measures that would drastically drive up gas and heating oil prices?