| Azuren said: I don't think religion should be mentioned unless the attacker claims that religion as a motive. I'm not even worried about their ethnicity so much as I am a motive. |
I'd say quite the opposite - when they claim religion as the motive is precisely when you should refuse to talk about that (not that I think it's relevant in other cases).
When the media reports that a terrorist did their act for a specific reason, they're actually contributing to the exact fear that the terrorists were trying to create. The whole point of terrorism is to achieve political goals through violence and fear - if the people don't know what the act was done for, they can't react in the way that the terrorists wanted them to.
Muslim terrorists WANT the world to be scared of muslims. They WANT people to alienate muslims. Why? Because it increases the power of the terrorists - it swells their numbers. It becomes a recruitment tool - they go to younger muslims in the various countries, who are now feeling incredibly alienated from their own countrymen, and say "If you join with us, you'll feel like you belong - look at those people around you that hate you just for your beliefs; you belong with us, not them", and that's how they end up recruiting.
This doesn't mean the information shouldn't be available, but it shouldn't be broadcast.
