Paris attack aftermath: talk turns to war, page-28

The problem is certainly not with all Muslims. Each individual must be taken on merit.

The problem is certainly with Islam.

Islam is what it is. It won't be changed or reformed. People will read the book and interpret it how they want. Some will always take a fundamentalist view and fight with force. Moderates don't go so far, but they want to incrementally change nations so that national laws align with Islam, and that is the death by a thousand cuts for a free democracy. The only (so-called) Muslims who don’t want either of the above, are people who are not really adhering to the religion ... and you can't measure the character of a religion by people who aren't fully practicing it.

IS is not a foreign nation. The people in IS are from the same countries and the nations now lining up to fight IS. Australia, France, USA, Belgium, Germany, Italy, UK will be fighting their own. Why? Because they allowed Islam to flourish in their countries and a significant number of kids interpreted it in a fundamentalist way. It’s not about Muslim people being marginalised in Australia and other western nations - honestly how can these nations do more? This argument is baseless and the proof is seen in Muslim nations: Islamic terrorism is more common there, not less. The only difference are the targets: moderates.

The reality is that if western nations say yes to Islam, they are saying yes to fundamentalist Islam. Some people will be fundamentalists. And the bigger the absolute size of the Islamic population, the bigger the absolute number of fundamentalists. Western governments are making promises they just can't keep. They can stop some people radicalising some of the time, but they can't stop radicalisation all of the time. They need to manage what is within their control - the current and future size of the Islamic population.