Would giving a violent people their own country make them peaceful?

[Deleted]

I think we need to stop looking at Islam like there's no predictable thing about it, and radicals can just pop up anywhere. Western literacy in the difference between sects is minimal. There are kinds of Islam that never have produced, and never will produce a radical/terrorist/violent militant. There are also sects that produce many militants, and those that aren't militant are sympathetic to it. What would be much more productive is stop treating the largely benign types of Islam like they're one step from being a sworn enemy at all times, and start treating them like we're equally interested in protecting them from virulent sects of Islam that treat them with the same "join or die" perspective that they treat everyone else.

Agreed, + internet and humanity points for you.

[fengosa]

The better quality of life is for people the less likely they are to engage in violence. If you have something to lose you behave entirely different then someone who has nothing to lose. Land is part of that but wealth, equality and religious tolerance are significant factors as well.

[owbu]

The most terrible Goverments show up in really war ridden places (Taliban, North Korrea, ISIS), so I would say not bombing people definetely helps with not creating more new kinds of terrible organisations.
Leaving them alone in some cases does probably mean centuries of very slow evolution towards sucking less in some cases. Especially if they have the support of a bigger country like north korrea does.

[Deleted]

I doubt that giving murderous lunatics what they want would cause them to stop being murderous lunatics.

We should give them a piece of land from the Antarctic, give them fishing poles and leave them there. They'd be too busy trying to not to freeze and starve to death to even think about waging holy wars. We could also banish all our "European" Muslim extremists, along with their left-wing fanboys, there.

There would also be no "infidels" to enslave, torture and destroy. What would radical Islam be without the human sacrifice it seems to require on every occasion to please Allah? In the best case scenario they'd end up killing each other.

[Daethz]

Its impossible for any religious group to ever remain peaceful.
They will eventually disagree with eachother, split off and eventually will lead to wars with eachother.

[Rukh]

Its impossible for any religious group to ever remain peaceful.
They will eventually disagree with eachother, split off and eventually will lead to wars with eachother.

I think we need to be taking a closer look at them Quakers. Its only a matter of time before the Quaker crusade.

[Darkfie1d]

I'm guessing you aren't familiar with Taliban's reign of terror over afghanistan.

And if it's not enough allow me to make a suggestion here watch Escape from L.A or New York, it's the over the top exaggeration of the kind of state it'll be, which still won't be as horrifying as ISIS, Taliban, Al-Qaeda in charge.

[Fugus]

I voted "No"

If they were fighting for peace or something along them lines, then yes, it might.

But what we have now over there is not the case and would actually do just the opposite. Giving them their own country would pacify them for a brief period while legitimizing and emboldening them to push further.

The people over there, aren't pushing for freedom, they are pushing for power and domination over others in that region.

[Civfanata]

Did Europeans leaving Europe, genociding native americans and founding the United States of America make them peaceful?

In their own propaganda maybe....

If your culture / religion has the urge to show others that your way of belief is the way to the light, your own country is not enough

Ah the peace loving "native" Americans who did the same thing to each other before and when the Europeans came. Did Australia start this way?

[Daez]

Peaceful no, but they would spend most of their effort committing violence towards each other, and I'm alright with that.

[igualitarist]

This country already exists, it's called Brazil.

[Rukh]

The Indians fairly peacefully got their country back, they're not peaceful with Pakistan. Liberia was peacefully given away and it's probably one of the most violent places on earth (also 85% Christian if anyone cares!). Its almost like the events of the area matter to determine how a country acts. :3