ISLAMIC STATE'S WAR AGAINST THE WORLD - THE NEED FOR A MORE SYSTEMATIC RESPONSE. THE END!

We look for the commonality between us and others; the things we can identify with and which give us and reinforce our sense of having a shared humanity and worldview; weltanschauung. 

But, of course this is not something which is going to be achieved overnight; it has to be established and nurtured, by a spirit of trust. 

Accordingly, it is a precondition of achieving this, that we all work towards reducing  and/or de-emphasing the things, ideas, behaviours, etc, which make monuments of what separates and generate strife between us, humans.

This process will undoubtedly take many generations to achieve, but it does need to be actively pursued over those generations, both by governments and the people.

It is also the case that, it is not only religion, customs and cultures which links people across different countries, but also families and economics. 

Poor people gravitate towards where there are jobs, so that they can feed, educate and care for their families. 

These jobs tend to be in the more prosperous areas of the countries in which they live and/or in other countries; thus they are given the incentive - jobs - to migrate. 

One way of fighting Islamic extremism, is to work at generating the creation of more jobs in poorer countries, and to facilitate more trading with those countries. 

In a strange or ironic way, the encouragement of migration can also assist the process of weakening and destroying  Islamic extremism. 

As it removes some poorer people from the recruiting grounds where the propagators of Islamic extremism fish for them. 

These probably more fortunate people are then exposed to a different way of life and thinking, which they are then able to take back to their home countries.

It enables them to be provided with the opportunities for more enlightened thinking and education.  

Where they are better able to acquire other views, instead of the narrow perspective which is afforded them, by a one dimensional religious education.

A brief look at history will proved this to true. That there was a time, which is still the case in many rural areas of some countries. 

When the culture of the people decreed that it was pointless to 'educate' people beyond what they need to perform the role which society and custom require have decreed them. 

Thus girls would be deprived of education. Women would be denied the right to vote and own property. Slaves would not need to be able to read, unless their specific job required it. 

This is how the minds of people were opened or kept closed, and how the elite controlled the masses. 

An enlightened mind augurs well for an enlightened society, as does the reverse. 

It really is the case that, all of us humans are the product of our external environment. 

It does mould us into becoming the people we are. Where we differ, individually, is the extent to which we are able to transcend who we would have become.  

Had we not willed ourselves to look think and look out of the 'religious, cultural, ethnic, and traditional box or cocoon', into which are socialised into, from birth.

And so it seems, that, just as how spirit of enlightenment has freed European nation states of the conditions, the philosophies and religious doctrines which have hitherto enslaved their minds and bodies. 

So must this state of 'freedom' and 'enlightenment' be maintained and protected from any threat to weaken or remove it. 

Unfortunately for Islam, of all the religion-induced strife in the world at present, it is the most prominent one. 

Which is why it is so feared in the West, and why its followers in Europe and America, in the western hemisphere.  

Must evolve a version of Islam which is consistent and at peace with western liberal democratic values and way of life. 

Nothing less will do, if, as should be the case, the happiness of humans is to continue to have dominion over what is believed to be the dictates of the gods.

If we are to have societies in which a person's or people's religion does not define their status, restrict or determine their humanity, but is only a part of it. 

Where the values which we share and hold most dear, are those pertaining to our shared humanity - not our beliefs about god and religion - sense of compassion, our ability to avoid religious strife, and to live in peace and happiness; in this life.