SuperNova said:
Yes. And in the sentence immediately after that I explain why this does not seem to be the case with this shooter. How so? Are you saying religious extremism can not happen within a countrys predominant religion? The US is predominantly christian, yet they've faced a host of militant christian terror attacks (mostly on abortion clinics). Turkey, Afghanistan and Irak meanwhile, are predominantly muslim countries yet they've been heavily subjected to islamic terrorism. To the point, that a couple of years ago there was scarcely a day in the news when there wasn't a new bombing in Kabul (heck, the last one was 16 hours ago). Before you assume it was all attacks against foreign soldiers, there where a lot of attacks against churches, mosks and markets with no soldiers even present and the attacks continue to this day with no foreign forces in these countries. My point was that sometimes crimes happen to be committed by religious people even if their religion is incedental to the crime. This seems to be the case here (again, if the shooter was even muslim). You seem bent on claiming that this was religious terror, when there's very little to support that assumption based on the information we have available. Especially based on the behavior of the shooter. |
Please tell me about this host of militant Christian terror attacks. There has been one attack on a Planned Parenthood in recent memory (Colorado Springs), but using that as a comparison to the attacks in the Middle East is just absurd.