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 How to stop Islamic Terrorism in the West?

Islamic terrorism in the West is not a law-enforcement problem; it is a civilizational challenge. Police, courts, and intelligence agencies can stop individual plots, but they cannot extinguish the ideological fire that fuels them. That fire is lit by an idea: that Islam is not merely a religion, but a total political project which divides the world into believers and infidels, and sanctifies violence in pursuit of its dominion. Pretending otherwise is cowardice. 
Every bombing, every stabbing, every truck attack in Paris, London, Madrid, New York, or Berlin proves that what the West is facing is not a random pathology but a deliberate political theology armed with scripture and financed by petrodollars.
To stop Islamic terrorism in the West requires first intellectual clarity. The West must reject the comforting delusion that all religions are the same, that jihad is just an inner spiritual struggle, or that Islamism is a distortion of a peaceful tradition. It is precisely when societies anesthetize themselves with multicultural platitudes that terrorists thrive. 
Only truth, spoken without apology, can provide the foundation for defense. The truth is that Islam in its militant form has declared war on the very principles of Western life: freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, equality of men and women, secular law above divine command. That means saying plainly that practices like the hijab are not symbols of “choice” but visible markers of separation, and that banning them in the public square is a necessary defense of the secular republic.Second, the West must embrace militant secularism and reason as its shield. It must stop outsourcing its survival to self-appointed gurus of tolerance who preach accommodation while terrorists preach annihilation. The defense of the West must be rooted not in appeasement, but in militant nationalism —the insistence that Western civilization is worth defending, that its freedoms are not negotiable, and that its borders and values are not bargaining chips in a theological game.
 That means denaturalizing and deporting Islamic radicals, and refusing immigration to those who reject secular law in favor of religious supremacy. This is not prejudice; it is caution. If radicals belong anywhere, it is in their own societies where secular Muslims—who exist and must be supported—can battle them directly. Europe and America cannot be the dumping ground for other people’s holy wars.Third, the West must export not religion but reason. It must never back Jewish or Islamic theocracy in the Middle East but support secular Jews and secular Muslims who alone can create peace. It must promote secular education, democratic institutions, women’s emancipation, and the vigorous defense of rational inquiry wherever it can. 
Reason triumphed once before in places like Iran, Turkey, and the Arab world during the early twentieth century, when modernity, secular nationalism, and science briefly pushed back the tides of fundamentalism. It can triumph again, but only if the West exports secularism, not theology.

Fourth, economic independence is a weapon as sharp as any missile. As long as the West depends on Arab oil, it subsidizes the very ideology that seeks its destruction. The answer is to invest in nuclear, wind, hydrogen, and fuel-cell technologies, and if crude oil is necessary, turn to non-Islamic producers like Venezuela or Russia. No Western dollar should fund a madrasa or a terrorist preacher. No Islamist theocracy should hold in its hands the power to blackmail the West through energy markets.

Fifth, migration must be treated with realism, not sentimentality. Potential refugees should be held safely in neutral African states, funded by the West, until they can be properly vetted. Immigration from Muslim-majority countries must be regulated with extreme caution, not as an act of bigotry but as a rational defense of civilization. Secular Muslims, not radicals, can find a home in the West, but only if they accept its laws and values without reservation. The West must never confuse compassion with suicide.Finally, the West must recover its cultural confidence. For too long, it has apologized for its own history, its own civilization, its own achievements, as if prosperity and liberty were crimes. Terrorism feeds on this self-hatred like a parasite. To stop Islamic terrorism is to declare that the West is not ashamed of itself. It will not trade Socrates for suicide bombers, Mozart for martyrdom videos, or the Enlightenment for the darkness of the caliphate. 
The choice is not between liberty and security, but between civilization and its enemies. And the only answer to an enemy who worships death is a people who believe unflinchingly in life, reason, and the nation that protects both. Reason—not Christianity, not Judaism, not Hinduism, not Buddhism—is the most potent weapon against Islamic supremacism. The failure to defend reason has been the failure that opened the door to terror. The task now is to slam that door shut with unapologetic force.