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Post by Moose on Mar 1, 2015 2:07:48 GMT
I'd be interested to know what people think is going to happen in the Middle East now, and also how great a threat ISIS may be or may become. I do not know enough to say, myself. Are they just a localised terror organisation that no-one (not even most Muslims) like or could they really be a global threat?
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Post by kingedmund on Mar 3, 2015 4:31:29 GMT
Who knows really!
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Post by Moose on Mar 3, 2015 20:33:16 GMT
They do I would guess.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 4, 2015 17:24:02 GMT
It's hard to say. At this stage, they don't pose much of a threat to countries outside the Middle East and North Africa, but things could get worse if they don't get tackled as soon as possible. But in my opinion ISIS is just the tip of the iceberg, or as Faisal Al-Mutar, the founder of the Global Secular Movement, said "ISIS is like AIDS, it's not HIV". We have to tackle the deeper roots of terrorism and violence, some of which are ideological (in this case, related to Islamic texts and their interpretation), and some other are economic, political, and social. Otherwise, we'll keep seeing more groups like ISIS popping up, and their threat could get worse as technology becomes more and more advanced (despite their rejection of science and scientific thinking, they have no qualms using its very products).
Several people in the past and today, have discussed this problem in a more general context, in an attempt to highlight the critical nature of our era, and assess the chances that our global civilization could survive it. We're basically in an era of too much technological power and not enough wisdom to use it with our collective long-term survival in mind.
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