Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not...
by iofj on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:26PM
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2) is not true. Violence committed because of islam has been pretty steady since the end of WW1 and was much higher before that.
Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not...
by jules on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:42PM
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No, it has increased a lot. This is a Dutch newspaper, but you should be able to read the graphs: http://static1.volkskrant.nl/static/nmc/red/frameset/2015/te...
Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not...
by iofj on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @02:04AM
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This is over a short period and doesn't count stuff like the Sudanese "civil war" muslim raids on Southern villages, which would have made that graph look like a rounding error.
1) In general, the people actually doing the killings are far removed from the organization's leadership.
Here's an interesting piece on individual Isis fighters: http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...
2) Usually when someone is upset, they're very bad at articulating the actual thing that is upsetting them. Often when someone is upset, they'll say (and think) it's about something that is actually unrelated but happened to come right before the outburst of pent up frustration. To me, Islamism is a suspiciously rational explanation for completely irrational violence. Islam's pretty old, the book hasn't changed, but we're seeing a big spike in coordinated terror against civilians in the last couple years.