| RolStoppable said: Oh, I wasn't refering to what you posted in the other thread, but rather the post I was replying to:
Why did you dismiss the pattern again? It is confirmed that the motivation wasn't religion. How was I off the bat entirely? |
If you want to show the post you are replying to, then provide at its entirety, namely "There's no one criteria for what constitutes or does not constitute an Islamic attack."
My interpretation of your argument in the other thread was that you were saying there has to be a specific pattern for an attack to be an Islamic attack. My argument is that there's no one criteria for what makes an Islamic attack and that the more important aspect is the motivation. How an attacker goes about his killing spree does not change what his motivation was. This is why you were off because you were focusing on the wrong aspect. When more information came out, the killer had a history of being bullied and not feeling German enough.
The reason why I didn't claim anything either way prior to that was because there were reports of him saying "I'm German" while there was an eyewitness testimony from a Muslim woman that he shouted "Allahu Akbar". And this is actually another counterargument to your pattern argument because based on the then limited information, the motivation could've been Islam, but there was a good possibility that it was not based on the "I'm German" statement. The pattern doesn't provide an adequate enough picture and therefore, the root cause or the motivation is the far more important aspect.
