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Originally Posted by thenry
No! Its both but mainly its religion, its rooting from religion.
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It is both but we shouldn't ignore the political aspect. It isn't unreasonable to suggest that western foreign policy, regardless of it's merits and flaws, is helping the radicalisation of disaffected Muslim men. The attackers were spouting just as much political noises as religious ones. The Jewish faith follows the Old Testament which is pretty violent are there isn't a similar problem there, nor is there much of a problem with extreme Christianity. Yet there is nothing inherently different about the Islamic faith and it also happens that a lot of the areas around the world that have the instability for extremism to thrive are predominately Muslim.
I don't think it's as simple to say it's rooted from religion.
I would advice against drawing too much from selectively chosen passages from the Quran. I don't think many of us here have the knowledge to place those quotes in their proper context or how they're typically perceived and interpreted. The Bible has passages that advocating stoning people to death for working on the sabbath after all. It's meaningless to just cherry-pick these quotes.