re: What's your one solution to end terrorism?

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The problem is, it will take generations to defeat the extremist interpretations of the Quran that ISIS uses. You can't *kill* ideologies. You have to shift it over time. It took quite a long time before the Puritans stopped believing in witchcraft. It will take a long time to eliminate the extremist nature of Muslim faith.

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Exactly. It took generations for this ideology to take root and grow. It took Muslim Brotherhood types running for Nasser's Egypt and becoming educators in the KSA to spread it to the youth. Funding of Jihadi Salafist mosques that continued the spread. This didn't just happen and isn't going to go away quickly.

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they want more American cars and women in their cities and fewer bombs and violence.

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Cars and titties vs bombs, death, destruction, and freedom limiting laws in the name of religion. Yeah, that's not a difficult choice.

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the extremist/radical muslims are a minority to the more modern passive-minded muslims. Their evolutionary wave has begun - we just need to facilitate it. Bombs alone will not achieve those goals.

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I'm with you. Such a long term solution isn't going to be an easy sell when the random violence is unpredictable and scary. This is the only solution that has a chance to work though, imho.