“They already are lit fuses. They’re just long fuses.”
Yes, so the choice is to light them all now and fight a battle on every street. OR wait until the new generations are exposed enough to Western culture to calm down on their own
You have to remember that in places where they are most fanatical, these people have had no exposure to other cultures for generations. Entire nations essentially became cults with no freedom.
Now you have kids able to see any book, magazine, show or movie ever created on a $20 pocket device. Instead of having only the Quran to study, they can see everything. The internet has completely changed the hold on information and the children of all these fanatics are now questioning everything!
I would want to hope “they would calm down on their own.” But that is something I think that history has shown not possible with Islam.
Yes, technology and the internet can certainly pass on knowledge not contained in the Qur’an. But you also know that the internet can be a boon to both sides of the political spectrum and all manner in between. You only need go looking on the ISIS fighter web pages and social for that.
Media has been shaping and molding ideologies (mostly leftist) for decades. As print and broadcast media are dying out, others take their place in the internet. Still molding and still shaping with lies too busy to seek out the elusive truth.
I hope you’re right, really. But they’ll never give up on destroying Israel, and they won’t lose their zeal to convert the entire world to their religion.