thanks alwaysconfused thats exactly what i wanted to see/hear.... seems to me hes just another nutter on the streets..
and thanks to you kosmos, i never actually saw the outcome of that, i did however see many many debates about him being considered insane rather than a terrorist..
peter ... takbir is the word in arabic for Allahu Akbar meaning God is great/greater/greatest.... if someone says takbir then the people around will say Allahu Akbar... its not just used as some think in situations like this but for a lot of things... we say it in salat and for example i went to a charity event for syria last year... every time someone donated an amount the person speaking said 'takbir' to which everyone said Allahu Akbar
and for question 2
http://www.islamicstudies.info/tafheem.php?sura=5&verse=44&to=50
i was pulled up either here or elsewhere (without looking through i cant remember where) as to why my first comments were questioning the terrorism thing rather than exclaiming shock/horror at what had happened.... the conversation went as it did like conversations do, had i read or seen it properly my first comments may well have been shock/horror, i was also pulled up for commenting without knowing the whole story (which tbh none of us know the whys and wherefores, we all only seen the outcome) but i did say loads of times i hadnt seen which is why i was questioning. so now ive seen, yes it was a horrible way to die.... but im not shocked... i see mutilation on an enormous scale every day on photos of situations in places like syria/palestine/rohingya..... not only of adults but many many babies and children.... to start with i was shocked, disbelieving, now it makes me angry and overwhelmingly sad, maybe ive seen so much im hardened to the shock of this kind of thing?