Chinese academic defends beer festival in Muslim region

[VCheng]

When and where exactly has that approach "stopped terrorism"?

One country that stopped terrorism was Sri Lanka, and they didn't do it by coddling people.

May be China's tough approach will give better results than what the Economist suggests?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

May be China's tough approach will give better results than what the Economist suggests?

I don't know myself. I'm a layman when it comes to these issues.

However can you tell me, were the Boston bombers suffering terrible persecution before they committed their act of terrorism? Was Osama living as a beggar on the streets?

No, in fact they were living lives that many people would envy. You could have given the Boston bombers a new car every day for free and it wouldn't have helped.

The Economist is a British newspaper, and well maybe they can shed light on how a soft approach has worked for them. They are the hub of the Western world when it comes to extremism.

I'm not saying a hard approach is necessarily better, but the soft approach sure hasn't worked either.

 

[VCheng]

I don't know myself. I'm a layman when it comes to these issues.

However can you tell me, were the Boston bombers suffering terrible persecution before they committed their act of terrorism? Was Osama living as a beggar on the streets?

No, in fact they were living lives that many people would envy. You could have given the Boston bombers a new car every day for free and it wouldn't have helped.

The Economist is a British newspaper, and well maybe they can shed light on how a soft approach has worked for them. They are the hub of the Western world when it comes to extremism.

I'm not saying a hard approach is necessarily better, but the soft approach sure hasn't worked either.

I am not sure a one-size-fits-all approach will work. It is up to each country to figure out what works for it the best when dealing with this menace.