Religion with a rule that your god doesn’t get drawn? Eh, whatever. There’s weirder rituals and rules out there.
Murdering people over aforementioned rule? Yikes.
Publicly broadcasting drawings? Yeah well, that’s not gonna help anything, now is it.
The smart thing for the state to do would be to work with Muslim leaders to better francify the religion. Get them to publicly denounce the killing, and give them plenty of airtime to do so. Call for sensitivity around religion even so. Work to identify particularly radical imams etc and replace them with more moderate ones. Don’t publicly provoke everyone in that religion.
Yeah, that’s fair. Programmes to better integrate would be a good call. Job programmes, cultural exchanges, etc. Even promoting intermarriage. Anything that breaks down those social barriers.
I approve of everything you're saying, except "radical imams" is not really the problem. The typical profile of a Salafist terrorist (read the work of terrorist anthropologist Scott Atran) is a non-observant young man with a criminal record (or a family member in a terrorist group) who suddenly finds religion. A bunch of previous terrorists were recently kicked out of mosques, because they would start arguing with the imams or just generally say extremist things that made them unwelcome to the regular congregants. The desire to do terrorism comes form humiliation in personal life that's reinterpreted as part of the global pattern of Muslim humiliation, driven by watching jihadi videos or just hearing reports of anti-Muslim war crimes.
So there are jihadi preachers that spread the ideology, but they're not going to be in some public Paris mosque. They'll be uploading content from wherever, and it'll be memes and dumb shit shared by young people, not like, "le book says kill infidel."
what inspires the most lethal terrorists in the world today is not so much the Koran or religious teachings as a thrilling cause and call to action that promises glory and esteem in the eyes of friends, and through friends, eternal respect and remembrance in the wider world that they will never live to enjoy.... Jihad is an egalitarian, equal-opportunity employer: ...fraternal, fast-breaking, thrilling, glorious, and cool.
— Scott Atran
Also in person. But not through formal religious structures. People who're routinely religious are boring traditional people, not fiery revolutionaries.
Yeah. In short:
Religion? Little bit cringe tbh, but you do you.
Religion with a rule that your god doesn’t get drawn? Eh, whatever. There’s weirder rituals and rules out there.
Murdering people over aforementioned rule? Yikes.
Publicly broadcasting drawings? Yeah well, that’s not gonna help anything, now is it.
The smart thing for the state to do would be to work with Muslim leaders to better francify the religion. Get them to publicly denounce the killing, and give them plenty of airtime to do so. Call for sensitivity around religion even so. Work to identify particularly radical imams etc and replace them with more moderate ones. Don’t publicly provoke everyone in that religion.
And work to normalize Islam among the French.
Let’s not pretend the marginalized group is going to control their own inclusion.
Yeah, that’s fair. Programmes to better integrate would be a good call. Job programmes, cultural exchanges, etc. Even promoting intermarriage. Anything that breaks down those social barriers.
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I approve of everything you're saying, except "radical imams" is not really the problem. The typical profile of a Salafist terrorist (read the work of terrorist anthropologist Scott Atran) is a non-observant young man with a criminal record (or a family member in a terrorist group) who suddenly finds religion. A bunch of previous terrorists were recently kicked out of mosques, because they would start arguing with the imams or just generally say extremist things that made them unwelcome to the regular congregants. The desire to do terrorism comes form humiliation in personal life that's reinterpreted as part of the global pattern of Muslim humiliation, driven by watching jihadi videos or just hearing reports of anti-Muslim war crimes.
So there are jihadi preachers that spread the ideology, but they're not going to be in some public Paris mosque. They'll be uploading content from wherever, and it'll be memes and dumb shit shared by young people, not like, "le book says kill infidel."
Gotcha so it’s mostly online incel/chan style radicalisation, but with an Islamic veneer instead of a Christian one?
Also in person. But not through formal religious structures. People who're routinely religious are boring traditional people, not fiery revolutionaries.
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