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France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism
An anonymous reader writes In the first use of government powers enacted after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the French Interior Ministry on Monday ordered five websites blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism. The action raises questions about how governments might counter groups such as the self-declared Islamic State on digital platforms.
You are mistake Islam, the religion, with Islamism, the ideology of imposing a certain interpretation of Islam, and features of some ethnical identity strongly associated with Islam, over people. Islam is no poison any degree more than other religions, because it is nothing more than that: a religion.
Moreover, there is a huge mistake when as it seems to be your case, one considers the main cause of terrorism perpetrated by Moslem or Islamists to be Islam itself. It is not so simple. Moslems in western countries are pushed to identify themselves with Islamists because they are discriminated as if they were so. As for the cause of Islamism, it is western occupation. Europeans, especially French and English in the past, occupied land where Moslem lived, which caused a lot of resentment. Later, the English and UN imposed a the creation of a Jewish state in what was known as Palestine with no regard to the people who lived there. And now, Americans have set foot on two Islam countries. Do you think the Iraqis should stay passive while their country is sacked by a hostile, foreign forces?
Do you think the Quran teaches to hate Christians and Jews? Jew-hating in Middle East was in the same levels, or lower, as in Christian countries until the State of Israel was created, until western countries supported the Shah's corrupt regime in Persia.
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Learn your 20th century history. Secular socialist/communist states were responsible for the murder of their own citizens in the high tens of millions, possibly topping over 100 million. If you include deaths through gross mismanagement of resources and criminal negligence, it goes higher, and easily eclipses the sum total of all those dead in religious wars through all of human history.