State of emergency in France

In Europe we are getting areas where immigrants live, so this will be conserved to a large part between generations.

My point is -- many of the children of my secular friends will grow up with social input which might end up making (even) them radicalized.

This is a big problem, which the Muslim community better solve before a bad backlash starts. :-(

5. Stop killing large numbers of Muslim people in the Middle East every week and see if that doesn't make them less likely to kill comparatively small numbers of people in Western cities every couple of years.

Fixing social issues is not easy. Masses of youths without education or perspective, racism, increasing segregation between the middle and lower classes can't be fixed with simple methods.

Where do we start? I'd suggest starting with schools. Make sure that kids go to school. Send social workers to schools, that talk to students. Offer courses in the native language of migrant children, to make sure they are not left behind and drop out early. Make sure that every student has a grown up at school that they can talk to, that they relate to.

Next, housing. Rents in most european cities are skyrocketing. I assume that this is caused by the current low interests rates, which lead to more and more people to use real estate as an investment. Low interest rates also make credit cheap, increasing the amount people can pay for housing, again increasing prices. This means that even the middle class is struggling to afford housing, and people working low income jobs have to live in very low quality housing, in poor areas. Fixing this is probably not easy, and probably requires a number of unpopular measures like rent control, or subsidised housing (for example you could require real estate developers to offer a percentage of affordable appartements when they apply for a permit to construct a new building).

Also, jobs. I really don't know how to fix this. A starting point would probably be to require minimum wages even for contract employees, or better to outlaw the current practices of hiring people as "independent contractors" instead of proper employees.

Anyway, these are just some suggestions. Note that all these measures are about helping people, rather than harassing them. Happy people don't become terrorists, and happy people don't need to be put under surveillance.

First of all, identify the problem. Why are there terrorist attacks? Saying "religious nuttery" achieves nothing. Nuttery always exists but is in majority not enough to push people to suicide bombings. Terrorist attacks exist because of political power and influence. They're efficient, because we let them be efficient.

Compare it to the drug trade. [Cartels|terrorist cults] thrive because there is [money|power] to be made. Going after the [cartels|terrorists] is not enough long term. [Jailing|Discriminating against] [potheads|muslims] only serves to worsen the situation for them, pushing them even further out of society, but does nothing to solve the problem. Criminalizing the components such as [drugs|encryption] only makes the problem worse for your citizens, doesn't affect the bad guys. You need to take care of the problem at the root by removing the bad guys' incentives.

In the case of terrorist cults, religion is a mask. It's just whatever's currently marginalizing people as much as possible. You see, marginalized people make for excellent subjects. Just like any other cult, they prey on the weak. They prey on the ones who are feeling alone, those feeling rejected by everybody even their own country. Those who have nowhere else to go find a place they're taken care of, where they're cheaply promised great rewards (in the afterlife) and where they can find a purpose. Not just that, but somewhere they can take revenge on the country that hates them.

"Muslim" terrorists know quite well that their attacks only make the lives of muslims worse. They only serve to get them more subjects so they can get even more political power.

So you want an idea? You take care of that problem. You start teaching others about how those cults really work - know your enemy. You make people understand that more hatred, more blood, are exactly what the terrorists want. That's why we call them terrorists: Politics through terror. Education. Teaching to be more critical of media - media has complete control over the narrative through most mediums, and as long as some media outlets stand to gain from instilling fear of your neighbour, they'll keep doing it and readers will not be any less impressionable for it.

I dunno, maybe it'll make a difference. Maybe it won't. I want to believe it will, but today, as a French person, I have seen more xenophobia than I care to admit. I'm hating humanity pretty badly right now. HN has been the only place where I've found mostly reasonable reactions.