re: #14 Desmond

Until the average Muslim comes around to the view that people should be treated equally under the law regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or religion (as much of the Christian world has), there will be a base of support for Jihadism that isn’t easy to dismiss as a small minority.

The parenthetical statement made me laugh. The straw man at the end lets me know you are a propagandist. We are dropping fucking bombs on the ‘base of support for Jihadism’, although you see that base of support as the general population, while I see that base of support as ISIS.

All I am saying is that at this current moment of history, the Islamic world has a particular problem with this, and it is enabled by the strongly conservative views held by much of the population.

If you can’t make a factual case for ‘the strongly conservative views held by much of the population’, then you are not talking about reality.