DrZoidberg
Contributor
They are occuring with some regularity in Europe. That Marseille knife attack that killed two women, perpetrated by an IS-inspired Nafri migrant, happened just three weeks ago.
You're only counting the stuff that shows up in the news. There's all manner of rioting, robberies and murders that go on all over. But most of it isn't newsworthy. In the big picture Islamic terrorism doesn't even show up in the statistics for overall deaths or wounded. It's still more dangerous to take a shit on your own toilet or eat a banana.
And then you've got political acts of violence that are branded as Islamic terror, even if they aren't. The Paris attacks wasn't an Islamic act of violence. ISIS said it was an attack to get France to withdraw their troops from Syria. Same deal with 9/11. Osama Bin Laden said the attacks was in order to pressure USA to stop meddling in the Middle-East (boy did that backfire).
It's really a confusing mess where the alt right are on purpose trying to muddy the waters, in order to make Islamic terrorism look worse than it is.
Islamic terrorism to me is attacks carried out by someone for non-political religious reasons. Like that guy who tried blowing himself up in Stockholm a couple of years back. He did it for some religious reason that escapes me. He didn't kill anybody but himself though. And the Islamic truck terrorist attack earlier this year in Stockholm. Didn't really seem to want anything other than to commit suicide. Which he chickened out from and got arrested.
If you put Islamic terrorists next to gangsters murdering people in drug maffia wars, then the Islamic terrorists are harmless. How about focusing on real problems? Islamic terrorism just isn't. It's a shame when it happens. But we've yet to reach a point where any of us need to worry about anything. The chances of it leading to any kind of minor nuisance for me specifically is near zero.
Since these terrorist attacks have been inspired by IS and no so much micromanaged by it, I do not see how the fall of IS in Rakka and elsewhere will negatively affect the IS-inspired terrorism.It makes statistics on it highly dubious. Let's see if the trend persists after the fall of ISIS.
I think we'll get a spike in terrorist attacks the coming years. Now all the devout Islamic ISIS fighters are coming home again, and will face all manner of problems. Since their type of Islam thinks that death by suicide is an honorable way to go, I think the result will be loads of terror attacks in Europe the coming year. But that will be the end of the ISIS inspired ones.
"Even more rapid"? What are you smoking. Islam as a whole is not liberalizing. You just have to look at all the burqa-wearing women even in the West.I think ISIS and Al Qaeda was the last desperate attempt of a dying form of religion. I think reformation and liberalisation of Islam will now become even more rapid.
Yes. Islam is liberalising rapidly. I don't know under what rock you are living, but I guess it's not one of the rocks where Muslims girls go out on the weekends to party and get drunk. I don't think that happened all that often 30 years ago?
And one of those changes was resurgence of Islamism.I don't think you appreciate just how quickly the Arab/Islamic world has changed, in just the last 70 years.
Or rather, a rise in fundamentalist Islam. The same thing happened in the west when we industrialized. Jehovas Witnesses comes from this period. It peaked in 1930 and then as the economy of the west stabalised in the 1950'ies evangelical Christianity just died. It's still big in USA. But I'm sure it'll die there as well.