Terrorism is no more common today than it was in the 70s and 80s when the IRA were doing their attacks. Understand that.
What has changed is the response and the media, which (as horrendous as terror attacks are) sensationalise these events and make them seem so much more immediate and bigger. When an attack happens now in The West, every international news station jumps on it and every random halfwit starts ranting about it on social media. The result is, we act like society just collapsed over a few people getting murdered (which happens every single day, just usually not in one event like that).
Of course, terrorism is horrible, I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned. We definitely should be having honest conversations about Islam's political component, because yes, terror IS linked to that. Until Islam secularises and gets it's politcal power stripped away, this is going to keep happening. It doesn't come from nowhere. What I'm saying is though, we need to have some scope and perspective, and not jump to knee-jerk emotional reactions every time this happens (which is typically either denying there's anything wrong with Islam or, opposite extreme, acting like every single Muslim has an agenda. Neither help.).
IIN I hope Islam will die out?
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Terrorism is no more common today than it was in the 70s and 80s when the IRA were doing their attacks. Understand that.
What has changed is the response and the media, which (as horrendous as terror attacks are) sensationalise these events and make them seem so much more immediate and bigger. When an attack happens now in The West, every international news station jumps on it and every random halfwit starts ranting about it on social media. The result is, we act like society just collapsed over a few people getting murdered (which happens every single day, just usually not in one event like that).
Of course, terrorism is horrible, I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned. We definitely should be having honest conversations about Islam's political component, because yes, terror IS linked to that. Until Islam secularises and gets it's politcal power stripped away, this is going to keep happening. It doesn't come from nowhere. What I'm saying is though, we need to have some scope and perspective, and not jump to knee-jerk emotional reactions every time this happens (which is typically either denying there's anything wrong with Islam or, opposite extreme, acting like every single Muslim has an agenda. Neither help.).