We have plenty of backwards people in the US too, you know who you are. The difference between these Americans and radical Islam is that radical Islam can be much more dangerous.
I do believe we are headed for a big attack aimed at killing thousands. People stop being impressed by little attacks so terrorists have to constantly up their game.
A pretty basic tenet is that there should be no separation between church, judiciary, armed forces and the political state: religion is supreme and the ultimate word in every dispute. The separation of powers is a pretty fundamental element of the modern world, and centralisation around a doctrine - monarchy, totalitarianism, theocracy, militarism - has had endless experiments, all of them a failure. You can see where a modernising Islam goes - where the Lebanon might have gone - but each attempt to realise this has been pinched off by retreat into more or less overt monarchy, tribal dictatorship or theocracy. Or chaos.
-- some reddit guy
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Tony Blair has said that "many millions" of Muslims hold a viewpoint that is "fundamentally incompatible with the modern world."
Rejecting arguments that Isis is simply "tens of thousands of brainwashed crazies," he continued: "[Isis] does not seek dialogue but dominance. It cannot therefore be contained. It has to be defeated."
To mitigate against such attacks, the ex-PM argued for "active on-the-ground military support" for Arab armies, stating that Isis "have to be crushed."
He also called for the creation of a pan-national anti-terror force, saying: "We must build military capability able to confront and defeat the terrorists wherever they try to hold territory. This is a challenge for the West."
His comments, made during a Sunday Times interview, come six months after he admitted that the existence of Isis could be blamed on Western intervention in the Arab world during the second Iraq war.
Asked by a CNN interviewer in October 2015 whether he thought the invasion of Iraq was a "principle cause" of the rise of Isis, he said:
"I think there are elements of truth in that... Of course you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.
"But... it's not clear to me that even if our policy did not work, subsequent policies have worked better."
He warned that "increasingly frequent acts of terrorism" could culminate in an attack "of such size and horror" that it would result in "many more victims" than the recent attack on Brussels or 2015 attacks in Paris.