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Afterword
The scourge of radicalism is currently
afflicting the entire world, from the fur-
thest point West to the furthest point East.
When this problem first raised its head,
many Western countries imagined it
could be easily dealt with. But that is not
what happened because radical Islam is a
belief system nourished by fabricated
hadiths and many Islamic countries and
Islamic scholars believe in those fabricat-
ed hadiths, even if they condemn war and
violence. It is therefore very difficult for
the solution to radical Islam to come from
those countries and scholars.
Using military means to deal with
radicalism has been tried many times, and
has failed on every occasion. It is a feeble
and foolish policy that has slaughtered
thousands of innocent people, has left
thousands more without home or country
and has inflicted even worse instability on
countries. The main attribute of armed
radicals is not their using their weapons
well, but their following a false ideology.
Seeking a solution only by killing, while
ignoring their false ideology, will serve no
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