Answer the Questions using the Link and Attachment (Kim Woods)

Today’s joint lecture and readings may have complicated and enriched your understanding of Islam and Muslims, or perhaps you were already familiar with much of this information. Regardless, a staggering percentage of people in the US consider ISIS to be a “critical threat” – to themselves. Leaving aside the issue of whether iSIS is an objectively greater threat to Americans than cars or prescription drugs, if you were tasked by the next president to devise a strategy to combat ISIS and other instantiations of extremist Islamic fundamentalism, what would your strategy be? What if the next president were Jill Stein or Bernie Sanders – or Trump or Clinton after a miraculous conversion to pacifism – and you were told “I want an entirely non-military solution; I’ve heard from too many soldiers that for every terrorist we kill, we create ten more, so I’ll give you the same amount we currently spend on our failed military solution to this problem, but I want something entirely nonviolent“? Optional additional question: how would the US have to change its relationship with Saudi Arabia and/or Turkey?