What can actually be done by religious extremism? Seriously? What steps can be taken to decrease terrorism? Anyone have any realistic ideas?
I mean going back to everything before the 19th century, even Cadaan people were savages man. Violent wars and conflicts happened frequently. Besides these de-stablization military efforts in the middle east/africa and some proxy wars here and there, the world has been pretty peaceful since WW2. I think education amongst the masses and economic prosperity were the two biggest things that influenced this. The business part is obvious, there's just too much money and trade opportunities to throw away. I think this is a bigger factor than most people realize. Western governments are heavily influenced by capitalists and their lobbyists , it wouldn't be in their best interests to start a conflict with trading partners. But just like the post
@Shamis had earlier, War is a business for many rich people, someone always has to get the short end of the stick. The US governments multi trillion dollar budget has to be put to use somehow or the taxpayers will complain. I guess that's why it's always the shittier countries that get targeted.
Education is also really fucking important. Al-shabab, ISIS, AL-Qaeda, etc. All these terrorist groups have on thing in common. They prey on the young and ignorant. It's very easy to enforce your ideals and beliefs onto ignorant and young people, that's how they get a majority of their members. The most dangerous part about Islamic extremism is the ideology and how it's being indoctrinated into the youth. The thing i hate about religion the most is that every single religion/ideology has their people convinced that their shit is the real deal. It's no different for islamic extremism. These millions of kids they are indoctrinating right now they aren't magically going to become more moderate muslims. A vast majority of them will continue to hold their current ideals and beliefs until they die. That's what makes this shit so dangerous. We need to educate the masses and save them from ignorance. Islamic education and general education too (science, math, languages, etc..). Idk it's a pretty complicated issue to tackle, but the way i see it if we can somehow get rid of the ignorance i think it would help a lot. It would be harder to convince these kids and the youth to join the dark side.