| I spoke about the way globalisation has led to an increase in religious identities around the world. I also challenged the audience to view al-Qaida as a movement, not as an entity (to quote the great al-Qaida ideologue Abu Musab al-Suri, "al-Qaida is not an organisation […] it is a methodology.") And I spoke about the way al-Qaida connects the local grievances of Muslim kids living in, say, Leeds to the global grievances facing Muslims in places like Palestine and Iraq. The question that I posed to the audience was this: How, then, do you confront a movement? Surely, not just with bombs and guns. Rather, you must make the movement irrelevant. In the case of al-Qaida, that means addressing the very grievances that the movement uses to rally young Muslims to its cause: the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the lack of social, political, and economic development in large parts of the Middle East, the fact that we in the west tend to treat that entire region as a giant gas station. Only by addressing these grievances can the appeal of al-Qaida be diminished. |
To win
1) Listen to all Muslim grievances...
2) Carry out solutions to all Muslim grievances
3)???
4) Profit?
Basically this is a much less sophisticated version of the shakedown stance that the MCB and various Muslims groups would pull whenever something horrible would happen caused by an Islamic terrorist group. Terrorist act happens then calls to address Muslim complaints complied by the groups and if you fixed it everything will be alright.
If you don't then who knows, you could have thousands that could turn into terrorists.
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