Yes, suicide bombers shouting "Allah akhbar" is definitely political, nothing to do with religion at all.
Now that France knows that the ISIS, retards as they are, are not easy to control. France will have to decide: Either you leave Syria to the Russians or you leave the ISIS be and hope your intelligence will be able to prevent terrorists. It's crystal clear that the population there wants and supports Assad.
Obama's on the G20 made clear that the US are not going to change policy on the ISIS, which basically means that they will keep them restrained on one side, but continue to support them indirectly on the other. Putin of course offered his support in destroying ISIS, he for sure wants ISIS out of the picture, dead and buried. Turkey is playing a double-game, supporting the ISIS indirectly while condemning it's activities. It's a mess, but it's our mess.
Someone should ask Hollande: "What is the reason the French military was there in the first place?" and the answer will be to enforce Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Some people really believe that.
Truth is we should be apologizing to this old fella from Syria (the OP) because he is a victim of Western imperialism as much as we (Europeans) are.
Do you have a source on that? From what I've read there are plenty of opposition groups still fighting Assad (and ISIS).
Apparently we're too dumb to realize that the best these countries and their culture can do are kinda-socialist pretenders like Saddam and Assad who rule with an iron fist. Trying to create western democracies in that environment is simply insane.
PS: Your supremacist view of our culture & political system is not to dignified with any comment
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The terrorists desperately want this to be about religion. They want this to be about Muslims vs the rest. If they can make it that, if we in the west will believe that THAT is it, the terrorists can speak directly to all the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and recruit from them. They will justify their horrible actions vs other Muslims with the reasoning that they did it for all Islam which was "threatened".
It is a political struggle within Islam. Every western nation is walking on eggshells to keep it so. Don't support the terrorists by saying "They said Allahu Akbar, it's religious".
Want to dishearten Daesh? Challenge them and spit in their face, show them their actions is for nothing? Walk with Christian if you're Muslim and a Muslim if you're a Christian (or atheist or whatever).
But not mainly Muslim vs. 'the rest', but within the Muslim communities: moderate, shi'its, sunnits, fundamentalists, wahabits, normal...
Most people 'of the west' are no longer deeply religious in a former Christian sense. I think many muslims are of the same not deeply religious kind. 'Problem is', that the Muslim religion has too much influence in the 'worldly' government matters in most of the (moderate) 'islamic states'. This must change.
Do you think a Daesh would care? Spit them and they shoot you. It wouldn't have been different with a Nazi in former times.
Of course you are right with your 'walk with Christian if your Muslim...' this goes without saying. But I don't see a problem here with the majority of people 'in the west'.
Honestly, I'm starting to believe media is painting terrorism as religion issue on purpose - because it's easier to hate the other side if you can assume it's their faith that makes them want to hurt you. You don't have to consider the idea that they may have a valid point against us somewhere.
But homosexuals thrown off rooftops, infidels and adulterers stoned in the market square, and young girls raped and sold as sex slaves is not a political result. Neither was the targeting of Charlie Hebdo over a few cartoons of a long deceased man.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland were never about religion. They were about power, territory and self-governance - it just happened that the two main "sides" in the conflict were also traditionally of different Christian sects - and the easiest way to spoon feed it to the uninvolved masses was under the guise of religious/sectarian animosity because it made it slightly irrational, rather than motivated by oppression.