Why defeating Isis militarily won't be enough
Recently news broke that the Syrian army had defeated the last stronghold of Isis in the country, with the remaining fighters fleeing into the desert being hunted by government forces. This has been presented as the final nail into the coffin of the Caliphate, but while that may be true, it's not enough to get rid of the group. The simple reason is that Isis as a group is ideologically motivated. The group has been founded on a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam and ideologies can't be destroyed by force. If we wish to some day completely get rid of this, we have to support reformists within Islam and change the way we look at criticism of religion Now, I can already see the comments denying that Islam has anything to do with this and people calling me an islamophobe or racist for suggesting this. Admittedly, as a 20-year old man from a western country, who was originally raised Christian and later turned into an atheist, I'm not the best person to talk about this. T...