The vast majority of victims of muslim terrorism are other muslims, largely in the middle east and africa, and some in china, some in the west.
America has since 9/11 been had a relatively low number of terrorist attacks, with the syrian war tying up most extremists to fight over there
Combine that with a relatively well integrated and moderate muslim population in america while the influx to europe is more radical, and america's been spared more than europe, both far more than the middle east.

Been had!

Damn, last time I saw the news it was 20 dead. The world needs to snuff out radical Islam like we did with the Nazi's.

I don't think that's always true. I think there is a component of the religion that is the driving force behind the violence we are seeing.

There is definitely a component of Islam that makes its followers more suspectible to radicalization resulting in violence.

The vast majority of Muslims condemn such actions, but it's important to consider that the Quoran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.

Even though religous moderates condemn all violence, what's stopping the more extreme and radical Muslim followers picking up their religous doctrine and simply acting upon some of what is said?

Of course, there are also segments of the Quoran that condemn violence. But are we surprised that a religious doctrine contradicts itself in multiple topical areas? We see this all the time in religious scriptures, and how do Muslim moderates force extremists to ignore or put less weight into one or more violent parts of their scripture in favor of the more peaceful segments or teachings?

There is absolutely a problem with the religion of Islam right now. In this case we had an American Muslim that was radicalized and committed a horrifying act of terrorism and violence. Obviously there are many factors at play here (cultural, economic, mental health, religion, weapons, etc) but it is simply ignoring the facts to say there is absolutely zero problem with Islam radicalization when there are many segments of their religous doctrine that promote violence and Jihadism.

We have an awfully complicated problem on our hands. Mant factors and aspects at play. But make no mistake, Islam is a part of the equation here. There is a problem.

By all means, run off with your tail between your legs any time I post in a thread, you're always welcome to the same door.jpg as any common rabble spammer.
If you won't defend your posts, nothing will be missed.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 12 2016 02:12pm

Possible attack thwarted against LGBT parade today in LA

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gay-pride-la-weapons-20160612-snap-story.html

"like the Nazis" requires we go in after we get done bombing and build them back up so the same problem doesn't keep repeating. You will never get Republicans on board with that plan.

More guns in nightclubs shud solve the shooting problem

Germany didn't have a cultural history incongruent with the west, but intertwined with it. Bouncing back from fascism to integrating into EU wasn't hard.
Maybe Japan would be a closer parallel, but japanese cultural again wasn't hostile to western culture after the meiji restoration anyway.
We stayed in Afghanistan and Iraq after the bombings and built them back up with even greater efficiency and infrastructure and less geopolitical resistance than germany did with the USSR, but how did that turn out?

Gonna' have to disagree here and say that the concerns about the "radicalization of Islam" as it applies to mass shootings is entirely myopic and smacks of low-key Islamophobia.

The majority of mass shootings have zero connection to Islam, let alone ISIS. I mean, to say that "there is a problem" here would mean that we would be in need of a solution. What would the potential solutions be here that address, as your concerns have laid out, radical Islam?