re: Australian Imam: Make No Mistake, Islamic Scripture Commands Beheadings, Massacre People

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I generally agree with what you said, but this point doesn't make sense to me. The west is filled with violent history, and to this day is waging war across the globe. Maybe we should be focusing on reforming ourselves and stay the frick out of the places where the extremists live.

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I agree that we should not be involved in the inner workings of a lot of countries, but some have progressed beyond a point where that would be as easily done as if we had, say, done so in the 70s. If we had, Iran would still be a democracy that looks more like America than Saudi Arabia.

We have to own up that we (the United States) created a mess that we (the United States) needs to clean up in some way. I'm not interested in partisan blame - the simple fact of the matter is that we stuck our hands into other countries all the time. If there's an issue with one now, we need to assess if we are part of the cause and then fix it - not hope it resolves itself.