Islamist girls’ school that taught pupils gay people should be killed and men could beat their wives forced to close

Try and tone down your aggression levels and think rationally about the problem Islam is facing without resorting to violence. I think the way is to encourage small scale reforms and discussion about the religion and to build educational institutions that don't preach religious hatred to students. People are easily led into doing fucked up shit (think nazi Germany) and it's important to admit and remember that part of your history in the present. I hope Islam can reach that point in the future. There's no other realistic alternative.

I sometimes believe Islam can be changed and turned into a more modern ideology but it needs a healthy diet of education, rationality and free thinking, not violence and nuclear radiation. If the US had responded to 9/11 in non military ways and focused on spreading education and soft culture to Muslims we would probably be in a better place. Muslims just need to start ignoring the violent crap in the Koran and the better educated you are the higher your chances of saying "fuck that, I'll stick to the part about not lying and stealing and ignore the rest"

The biggest culprit in radical Islam is Saudi Arabias massive network of extremist religious schools so I would start by countering that with a brighter alternative. If Muslim parents had amazing free schools to send their kids to radical Islam would die out within a few generations. The religious seminaries target poor parents and are funded by Saudi Arabia and most religious extremists come through these schools.

We really need smart leaders and thinkers to help solve these problems but considering the US is choosing between Trump and Hillary I'm not too optimistic. It's been 15 years since 9/11 and all that's happened since then has been like watching the US pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out.

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