Indeed, this is not a war on our culture and society, it is IS fighting back to try and deter us from fighting them in Syria and Iraq.Tonibe63 wrote:......
I agree with you Ralph but the media constantly labels the terrorists as Muslim so therefore many will, maybe conveniently, think that the Muslim religion is exactly like the terrorists. For this reason I think it is right for the Muslim community to voice the fact that the terrorists do not act for them, this I believe is now starting to happen.
My personal view is that we are largely force fed information by the Western media who broadcast stuff based on their owners/editors agenda and as such we need to be careful of knee jerk reactions based on 'leading' headlines.
I'm also very cynical about Western Politicians having many hidden agenda's rather than really being stupid enough to constantly make the same mistakes.
People of ultimate power rarely do things for the good of the people.
I don't think our politicians have a hidden agenda as such. They get sucked into playing politics whereby the Saudis are the good guys because they are very wealthy and buy lots from us. But they also have provided lots of terrorists, funding for terrorists, promote their extreme intolerant version of Islam; Wahhabism from which IS has developed and have caused much unrest in the Middle east. If IS had the oil and the Saudis were fighting to establish a Wahhabi state in Syria/Iraq, we would be supporting IS. We did that with Iraq and Iran. Remember when Saddam Hussein was the good guy fighting the nasty Ayatollahs? We did that with the Taliban. Oh how we cheered when they beat the Soviets after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan!