Terrorist attack in Nice, over 60 dead.

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People sometimes tend to overthink when it is not necessary.

Wait - Why is there a little cake next to my name? What is this shit?

Its a bit much to explain but you can check here about IS. In German especially for you ;)

The fact that you seem to not know anything at all is kind of sad because this shit is everywhere and it would do you good to study up on it. Start from the history of the Middle East and work your way forward.

My opinion is that the West has finagled in Middle Eastern affairs for so long and royally screwed their nations up are angry, ill-informed, brainwashed, and want to return to a "Better time" where things were black and white. These are people that see the West, especially America, as liars, dishonorable, corrupt, sinful, and Godless, which are technically all true in some degrees. This is religious extremism married with political agendas and blah blah blah, it's honestly nothing the new. The only thing that is new is what flag they claim to be flying under. They claim to be Muslim and I ask all y'all this question: Christianity follows the teachings of Jesus. Are the Westboro Baptist Church and KKK still considered Christian despite their history of hate speech and in the latter, hate crimes and what I would honestly label as terrorism for decades? If the answer is yes, then ISIS is also Islam in that it is an extremist form of it.

If your answer is no, then ISIS/DAESH is, by the logic you have extended to discount WBC and KKK, not "Islam".

People claim that Muslims just want to watch our Western world burn for not thinking like them, but where have I heard that kind of thing before? "These savages do things incorrectly, let's force them into our ways" "These communist/socialist countries don't understand how things should work like us capitalist countries, let's fund guerilla warfare to overthrow their communist governments" Same old, same old.

Sadly the world and news shows are in a way that I can only agree on throwing out the TV :\ It's not good feeling miserable about something I can't actively affect. At a point I started following Hungary's politics closely and I actually got sleeping problems after a few weeks, so I had to stop it...

Smart move; did the same, ~10 years ago :D

Hence why I put it in single quotation marks, because there is no right/wrong or good/bad.

However, I'm save to say that it is wrong to murder civilians (children/babies included) when they feel save on a festive place/day.

Religion make people do weird things.

there's extremism in every religion and community. From Muslim to Christians. There's even Atheist extremists. From Animal rights groups to equal rights groups. Basically, what it boils down to is this: If there is something people feel passionate about, it can and usually does spawn extremists. People who don't see things going their way, and feel the only way to change it or fix it is by force.

It's not that difficult to arrive at that mindset either. Despite education or technology. Humans in general are a violent race. War is in our blood. Combine that with the fact that when governments don't have things go the way they want with other countries...they go to war. They use violence to solve it. So, I don't think it would be far fetched for a group to go "What's good for the goose, is good for the gander".

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/wqi3A/terrorist-attack-in-nice-60-dead#SYydm9z

In short sentence. They hate westerner.

It's quite easy in this age to maintain a closed mindset. Just look at the USA's science-denying right wing. They have first-world access to the Internet. But search engines are programmed to learn what you are most likely to click on, not for evaluating the truth of the results itfinds. So if you continually look for information online about President Obama being a Muslim you'll eventually only get results for sites that claim such a thing. Same thing goes for religious views.

The Internet as it stands today is not just the most amazing fount of knowledge in the history of mankind, it's also the greatest social experiment in confirmation bias.

Well I must say that I agree with him, except of course killing muslims that live here. Europe needs to stop bringing in people who don't want to adapt to our way of living.

I live in the Netherlands and we have major problems with muslim youth and even have so called sharia police in the big cities, police are afraid to enter those districts.

Well, the problem is that most people that think like that won't go into politics to 'fix' it. I totally agree that hate is never a solution, but the problem is that there are too many people that think it is.

It's actually a tactic that is and was used a lot by muslims to attack with ramadan, has been so since the old times.

They are killing other Muslims (non-Sunnis), because they view them as traitors, who don't follow the book, or "not Islamic enough".
Just like you, they are using the logical fallacy called "no true Scotsman".

As someone who has read the Quran, I can certainly see why so many Islamic believers are going around committing acts of terrorism. Some verses, yes, are taken out of context, but a predominant amount of the verses where Allah instructs believers to kill disbelievers do not have any context surrounding it and blatantly encourage these acts of violence.
Through surveys and statistics, it is shown that over half of the Muslims on earth can be classified as what WE call 'Radical Muslims'. This is a direct result of the type of things written within the Quran that support violence (Jihad) and Sharia Law.
As for the reason why these terrorists are attacking Muslims, that can be shown throughout the verses in the Quran on hypocrisy.

With regards to the Christian Doctrine (i.e. The Bible), there is not one single verse in the New Testament or that Jesus says that instructs Christians to commit violent acts against those we disagree with, in fact it says the complete opposite (Parable of the Good Samaritan, etc.). Where you may find vaguely similar verses that talk about war etc. are found in the Old Testament which is not a set of rules, but rather a historical account.

Yes, the Bible has similar verses. But a thing called the Age of Enlightenment happened. The separation of church and state happened.
Out of context? Please... https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Muhammad_and_Terrorism

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It's not that simple

Do not confuse Islam with Christianity. The Muslims are not like the Christians in the ways you seem to assume.

Humanity has gone through many "ages." We are now living in the Age of Confusion, where the lie is seen as truth, the truth is seen as a lie, people are killed without knowing why they are killed, and killers kill without knowing why they do so. There is so much disinformation flying about that people no longer know what to believe. The Youth have stopped respecting and listening to their Elders, and Elders have all but given up on the Youth. Families are divided and fighting amongst each other, and the good people of society are outnumbered by the bad with the majority in the middle suffering the most.

These are difficult times, but they will not last forever.

Only the book of the Twelver Shi'ites says that. All other Muslims believe lying is prohibited.

Actually, that's five questions, but I can answer them if you wish. I don't have the time right now, since I have to go to work, but I'll think about how to give you a short explanation when I come back. (This isn't the place for the 25-page answer.)

For now, I'll just tell you that <insert Muslim terrorist here> would say "Allahu akbar" because he is Muslim. Muslims say it about a thousand times a day. Pretty much everything we do is punctuated with us saying "Allahu akbar," or "alhamdulillah," or "subhanallah," or "astaghfirullah." In fact, it would be surprising to a fellow Muslim if you were to perform an action and not say anything. He would remind you to do so.

You do not understand how it is for Muslims because you do not know Islam, so you "fill in the gaps" in your mind with what you know from "other religions." That is what humans do, so it is natural and not surprising. Islam, however, is not like other religions, and there are many things about it that "outsiders" do not understand. One of them is how all of a Muslim's actions are supposed to be part of his or her religion. The same applies for a Muslim whose actions are clearly wrong and forbidden by Islam itself.

Thank you for making my point.

Why does it seem to me that 90% of the world's population doesn't know why "Islamic terrorists" attack Europe? Because most Muslims don't understand it, and non-Muslims really don't understand it (your response being an example of that). The only people that do understand it are people like me. I am a practicing Muslim who has spent many years learning Islam and the correct understanding of it, and I also have the extensive background knowledge required to know what is really happening in various parts of the world and why. Understanding the problem and how to solve it is nice, but it would be much nicer if I could get any of the policy-makers to listen to me.

"Mohammed as God's" - Not true, he's only a massanger
and others is more incorrect. but i wont answer that, since on yr first word is already a huge mistake. and telling me that yr really did not know islam at all.

I don't know enough about the Taliban to really comment, but it was my understanding that they are Islamic fundamentalists engaging in a jihad in Afghanistan for the purposes of implementing their strict interpretation of Sharia law on the local population. The Taliban has moreover collaborated with al-Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalist groups for the purposes of achieving those ends. As far as I'm aware, the consensus is that the Taliban aptly fits in the same general category as those other groups and organizations.

Do you have any sources detailing otherwise? I'll gladly peruse them.

There were 2 persons in the truck, 1 was shot dead and the other one got away. Just heard he took hostages in a restaurant.

It's going to get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.

There are good people in the world, and they are a minority. There are bad people in the world, and they are also a minority. Most people are between the two extremes, just trying to get by as best they can and wanting to be left alone to live their lives. When the bad people hold sway, the "middle" suffers and gets pushed toward bad behavior. When the good hold sway, the bad people are kept in check and have to toe the line, and everyone is able to live in peace.

Things may look bad, right now, but one good person is worth hundreds of bad people. Things will reach a tipping point, and good will once again triumph over evil. If you live long enough, you will see it.