A very politically incorrect idea

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Well, I would argue that it's a lot more complex than that.

However, generalise education to standard of living and I reckon you are getting a bit closer. Raise the general standard of living of the Middle East, which means more education, more jobs, better food, more luxury items, then see how things change. The same thing happens WITHIN societies - raise people's standard of living in a neighbourhood and, surprise surprise, crime, suicide, etc. decrease.

[ShackO]

HAHAHheeee............ LOL

The problem with the world is man.........

Since the beginning (whenever you whish to choose it to be) till now there has been hate and war.......... The has never been nor will there ever be some utopia……..

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Well, I would argue that it's a lot more complex than that.

However, generalise education to standard of living and I reckon you are getting a bit closer. Raise the general standard of living of the Middle East, which means more education, more jobs, better food, more luxury items, then see how things change. The same thing happens WITHIN societies - raise people's standard of living in a neighbourhood and, surprise surprise, crime, suicide, etc. decrease.

How do you give more jobs, better food, and luxury items to people that can't read? Any of the issues may be more complex, but it all starts with education. Fundamentalist Islam as a political religion relies on the masses to be uneducated and devoutly religious in order to be able to whip them into a frenzy against percieved objects of their destruction such as Jews or Americans. Just look at the literacy rates.

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A more politically incorrect idea:

Upon the next terror attack on America, immediately detonate one nuclear bomb over the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia, second holiest site in Islam. Then, announce that the any other attack on America or Western interests means one nuke on Mecca. If it's a religious thing (and it is to them), that's where you hit them. They understand, although most Americans don't, that our religion is $$$, and that's where they hit us, in Manhattan's finanical district.