The crucial error in this conversation is that it started from the wrong premise : that October 7 was an act of political violence. Not once was jihad mentioned in this conversation. In fact, the notion brought forward was that political Islam, is a leftist idea. While I have no interest in seeing the leftist idea come into fruition, at least not until the tragedy of the commons is solved, there were zero mentions of the fact that those acts occur time and time again by jihadist entities, which tracks back to the Prophet.
The crucial error in this conversation is that it started from the wrong premise : that October 7 was an act of political violence. Not once was jihad mentioned in this conversation. In fact, the notion brought forward was that political Islam, is a leftist idea. While I have no interest in seeing the leftist idea come into fruition, at least not until the tragedy of the commons is solved, there were zero mentions of the fact that those acts occur time and time again by jihadist entities, which tracks back to the Prophet.