Should we in Ireland be concerned about Jihad?

Guantanamo Bay had to be the single best recruiting base for Isis / Al-Qaeda et all. Repeating that will most likely have the same results. I think that a start might be made even at this late stage to become much more selective on who we allow into the Country. For a lot of EU country's, its all ready too late, Islam has become established, and as their Nrs increase , so will their influence. Death of Democracy, a kind of suicide if you like.

Yes. she will have a trial, as per western ( and not sharia ) law. If found guilty she will be sentenced according to Irish Law. The worrying thing about this is under Irish Law, can she be found guilty? Jihadism was not around when Irish Laws were being drafted, but maybe by now it has been updated to reflect the changing world we live in.

But you said Europeans should treat this as a war and in war, people die. Enemy combatants get killed. Be it by lethal injection 5 years after the conflict or by artillery 5 minutes into the battle, they will still die so how is a humane execution not a 'down the middle' reaction? It's certainly not extreme.

I think tying up your prisoners in a car then firing an RPG into it is extreme.. Or molding plastic explosives to a line of prisoners necks and detonating it in the hopes of decapitating them? This is what we're dealing with so why would we swing back with oven mitts on?

I think anybody fighting that section of religious extremism should operate under a general rule of thumb; no prisoners regardless of age or gender. Treat others how you expect to be treated is something these particular terrorists should have learned before they made snuff films for the victim's families to watch. I believe my ideas will help to stop inciting generations of Muslims to want to fight. The more public trials and year long debacles over terrorists in custody just gives recruiters more ammunition.

I'm probably a minority but I genuinely think the countries who wage war in these parts of the world should either go balls to the wall and actually conquer the place or just get out now. They've already caused irreparable damage and fighting the war with a proxy or a private military company isn't the answer. I also genuinely believe we're way past being branded as monsters. We're all monsters. Them and us. We bomb their children, they bomb ours. That already makes us as bad as them so why try and fight with one foot on the mat?

Edit: Even as I read that back I can see how hopeless my position is. It will never end, Islamic extremism or super powers fighting it because it keeps countries economies afloat.

Her years of helping in war crimes from genocide,to mass rape and returning legal Sex slavery to that region after the collapse of the Ottoman empire is going to be next to impossible to prove though.

She'll be free in a short time.

Ideally the Minister for Justice would extend her detention indefinitely but that's not happening.

And your overall thought and opinions of the book, rather than just a few selective quotes, please...? (And no, don't just ask ME if I'VE rread it - YOU'RE the one who brought it up).

I mean, I can take any selective quote from a Holy scripture and potray it's followers as barbaric heathens, can I not?

The idea that EVERY muslim follows every passage of the Qur'an to the later is as stupid as saying that EVERY Christian follows every passage of the Bible to the later - agree or disagree?

Most people don't understand the real reason behind these terror attacks, the media won't tell you about it but the real reason these terror attacks happen is to bring to the attention of the western population what is happening in the middle east so that the west cannot act with free reign and then face pressure from home to stop.

Little to nothing to do with religion, if it wasn't for these terror attacks nó one would care less what the US and others are doing in the middle east, the terrorists in the west don't have the resources to launch a sustained campaign against military targets so their only option for any significant attack is against civilians.

That's the whole reason Lee Rigby the British soldier was killed years ago as he described in the video after the killing, if it wasn't for the video explaining himself I'm sure the media have painted some picture of him doing it for some religious cause.

Harry, since the 6th century when Mohammad founded Islam, it has been in expansion mode....throughout history, it has ebbed and flowed, but the one constant is that it has never stopped trying to expand. And yes, its religion driven. The whole world must submit to Islam. You are aware that the ultimate aim and plan of ISIS was to march on Rome, and destroy it, don't you? Their media was full of " Kill the new Crusaders " propaganda. Saudi Arabia spend billions each year to spread the faith. So no, the msg has not changed. It was religious back then, and its religious now.

Hilarious some of the replies I've seen here, blame it all on Islam and place no blame on the West for the millions of dead in illegal wars and interference in the middle east.

A chunk of the problems in the Middle East do come out of interference from Western states, but trying to lay all the blame on them is rather myopic.

The results of the Arab spring in Egypt highlighted the issue where if the people are allowed pick their own government a hell of a lot of them pick right wing islamists.

They are not interested in democracy ala the West which means secularism and a division between religion and the state.

What happened when Saddam was removed by the US and it's coalition is yes in some part due to the limited thinking of the US and UK, but also due to the tribalism that still exists in the Middle East.

The US's limited thinking was not understanding all Arabs are not the same, all muslims are not the same, all Iraqis that hated Sadam are not the same.

Something often highlighted by some posters around here (particularly the "not all muslims" posters) is that the vast majority of people killed by islamists are islamic.

That is indeed true, a lot of the people killed in Afghanistan or Iraq were killed by fellow muslims, all because they believed in a different or less strict brand of islam, or because they just wanted to get on with their lives and try make the best of their country and thus worked with the coalition forces.

The narrative by some is that the Americans are responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead civilians when the truth is a huge chunk of them were slaughtered by their countrymen.

Oh yes one can argue that these people wouldn't have been killed if the Americans hadn't invaded.

But from my knowledge of Afghanistan they were killing each other long before uncle Sam showed up and they were killing each other without the assistance of the US.

Likewise Iraqis were killing each other before the Americans got to Bagdad.

Trying to claim that things like islamist terrorism and incidents like taharrush gamea have nothing to do with islamic beliefs and islamic based cultures is ridiculous.

You must be having a laugh.