How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS

Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by HappyFunGuy on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:27PM (#12112184)

This is a story about Somali Jamal in Denmark, who planned to join ISIS with his friends. But a cop called him, and apologized for uh.., thinking he might be a threat. So Jamal uh, changes his mind, but two of his buddies don't and die in Syria.

So if you hug a terrorist, he might not want to kill you as much, maybe.

You know who doesn't have this terrorist hugging problem?

Japan.

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by crishoj on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:30PM (#12112196)

Could you describe Japan's approach in greater detail?

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by oldboyFX on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:36PM (#12112218)

Japanese society is one of the most ethnically, linguistically and culturally homogeneous societies in the world, composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by d0mine on Sunday July 17, 2016 @07:13PM (#12112367)

Sakoku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by oldboyFX on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:31PM (#12112199)

It's because they're racist. Do you want to be racist like Japan or get BTFO'd?

That's what I thought!

edit: It's a (bad) joke.

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by gkya on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:53PM (#12112676)

While blanket terms are bad, and my knowledge of Japan is too little, pure racism probably is (very?) widespread there. I recall seeing (on news) a beauty queen in name of Japan was alienated or harassed for being of mixed race, half-Japanese. Maybe someone actually familiar will come along to tell us about the reality.

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by jsnk on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:50PM (#12112287)

Did you just make a blanket statement that Japan is racist? That's really racist.

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by jomamaxx on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:47PM (#12112273)

"It's because they're racist. "

Funny, Japan doesn't have a terrorism problem.

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by shalmanese on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:55PM (#12112852)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo#Tokyo_subway_sar...

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by cup on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:11PM (#12112720)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terrorism_in_Japan

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Re:How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS by vu4374fv18 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:04PM (#12112875)

A lot more people have died of terrorism in Japan than Denmark. And in both Japan and Scandinavia most terrorism has been committed by members of the ethnic majority.

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