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Seems like Isis is concentrating more and more on propaganda hoping to show they are still active and winning (when in truth they are losing ground in Syria and Iraq) but this is a clear "jump in quality" as the man killed was an elderly chatolic priest officiating mass.
The point here is probably Isis using these events as a sort of bloody "recruitment ads" and propaganda tools, but also as means to exacerbate the relations between religious communities, thus gaining more followers after the backlash they expect to happen.
It's an unfortunately clever strategy and it's pretty difficult to counter. Common people in most western countries are facing a decline of income and loss of rights (what the ruling elite calls "change"), and it's an historical fact that in case such as these the easiest reaction is to blame foreigners and minorities for all these troubles (something right wing political parties everywhwere actively do). Isis is contributing to this climate with several acts of terrorism meant to inflame the public and cause backlash they count to profit from.
So, if this is the problem, the question stays the same: how do you counter this kind of strategy and avoid western people choosing right wingers who would do exactly what Isis expects?
1) This is the hard part: For people to accept and absolute career death for any politician. Sit down with the your people and have a frank discussion with them.
This is the new normal in a connected world. This is not going anywhere.
Daesh can encourage these attacks with a facebook page and a smartphone wile riding on a donkey pulled cart in the middle of nowhere. Anyone that's angry at america (for good reasons), anyone that's angry at america for illogical reasons, or anyone that is mad at america because they're being blamed for everything that's wrong the same way american politicans blame foreigners for all of our problems here at home, can put together a group and make a video extoling people to act violently. It really is like fighting Hydra. Kill one head, it grows another. We took out al queda, daesh set up shop. We take out daesh, it will be the peoples front of judea. We take them out it will be the judean peoples front. We cannot bomb our way out of this
This is not all about us.
They have every reason to do this, because in that part of the world the love of a country drawn up by european colonialists and government that ranges from indifferent to oppressive a very small group of dedicated people willing to die for the cause goes a long way. A few years Before I got to the islamic republic of mauritania the president left to attend a funeral and 22 people with guns took over the presidential palace and the government. I don't think a shot was fired either time. The people kind of shrugged and went along with it. A few years after I was there, the exact same thing happened again. You can take over a country with your high school english class and one guys gun collection.
Anyone telling you they can fix the problem completely is lying or deluded. That is no what people want to hear though, so when a right winger starts talking about killing them all with more bombs and banning all muslims from the country and putting people on lists .. people will listen.
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