Extremely well argued, cogent and persuasive!

No matter how skillfully manipulated, blatant humbug will always remain humbug, or BS writ large!

And if the Brits are finally waking up to it, high time we followed that pragmatic lead!

Know the truth and the truth will set you free!

And that truth has to include, the west is not responsible for the for the ills that beset the Middle East, but Local dictators!

That we didn't steal their oil but bought it and for many years at over inflated economy killing prices.

Thankfully the Saudis have forced the prices lower and will likely continue to do so, as long as ISIL has any access to Iraqi or Syrian oil?

If I had a choice I wouldn't buy another drop of middle eastern sourced oil, the very source of much of ISIL's funds!

Saddam Hussein found ways to successfully smuggle it out, via Turkey, and no doubt so has ISIL?

We have plenty of much cheaper alternatives; and time to end the BS that keeps us importing M.E. sourced oil, and start exploring and exploiting the veritable smorgasbord of Indigenous alternatives!

I mean, its just not their pernicious propaganda and heaping helpings of humbug we need to stop buying!

Even where it is presumably dressed up in "green" safari suits, or endless copies of the emperor's new clothes!?
Rhrosty.

Charlie Hebdo and the West ARE guilty of doing wrong things, not anywhere bad enough to warrant murder, but they aren't pure as snow either and it's not "masochism" to point that out.

Mohamad Abdalla was probably correct in stating that the raids were "not the right approach" - such public raids were tactically unwise and only increase terrorist recruitment. It's better to have potential terrorists quietly "disappear" without a trace and with no explanations or admission, then finding themselves in some Muslim country without any recollection how they got there (and without Australian passports or any proof they were ever in Australia). Ignore his wise advice at your own peril!

Yuyutso would you care to comment on the teenage muslim who tried to kill two police in Endeavour Hills last year. Was that his support for his mate from Griffith University or that this blood thirsty behavior is just islam?
Personally I think we should embargo any more muslim immigration as they have proved so reluctant to join Australia.

"Extremely well argued, cogent and persuasive!" I agree Rhrosty, although I didn't need persuading.

Violence and terror are as old as Islam itself, Mohammed was a murdering bandit, the inconvenient truth is that the terrorists are simply imitating their prophet, they're good Muslims fighting the 1400 year war. It's extremely arrogant and patronising for the multi-culti clique to assign the blame for the creation of jihadis to Western prejudices, interference in the ME, or the wicked security apparatus, the reason is Islam.

The teaching of an objective history of Islam should be a compulsory high school subject.

"When someone attacks us, our first instinct is to think that we must have brought it on ourselves, that we must have done something provocative",

Yes, of course its our fault, the wife who gets beaten up, its her fault, the child who gets raped its their fault. What a lot of BS

IT IS NOT OUR FAULT, to want to live in a peaceful society, where we can laugh at each other.

have a look at the you tube video which explains it is ISLAM not us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAoXgZLRee0

Yuyutsu,

>>Charlie Hebdo and the West ARE guilty of doing wrong things<<

Depends on what you mean by “wrong”. If you leave your house unlocked and it is burgled the Insurance will not pay. Not because it condemns burglary. Neiother do I if I say you should have locked your house, although naturally it is the burglar who will be punished if caught, not you. On a larger scale, to assassinate twelve people (e.g. for a cartoon) is outrageously immoral, to provoke a billion of Muslims with a cartoon is not immoral only stupid, the same as leaving your house unlocked is not immoral only stupid. I think the author misses this difference.