butters
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I have no solutions either.
When your next door neighbour's polite helpful son can become a terrorist who commits murder on the streets of his town, how to you stop him?
How do you identify him? He might claim to be a moderate Muslim, attend a moderate Mosque, have a job, a girlfriend and show no abnormal behaviour until one day he decides to be a 'martyr' for radical fanatics.
Bombing Yemen (most of whom are fighting Al-Queda) and bombing Iraq and Syria where Al-Queda are fighting the so-called Islamic State might prevent expansion of territory but it does NOTHING to stop the home-grown terrorist. Instead it gives them 'justification' for their acts. Al-Queda and IS are embedded in civilian communities. Unless they are on a battlefield it is very difficult to bomb them without killing 'innocents', particularly children. Both have learned from HAMAS - place your weapons and bases in or close to schools, hospitals, UN facilities, and mosques so that any attack can be condemned as 'unjust'.
Fighting jihadists is not simple. It is extremely difficult to identify them in our midst.
We have to fight them. But the best, and probably only way, is to work with Muslims to destroy the jihadists' basis of their perverted ideology. That cannot be done by armed police, or special forces, only by fellow Muslims rejecting them. 'Not in my name' is a good start, as were the Muslims on the streets of France.