Why Are Muslim Extremists So Barbaric?

[naomi24]

They don’t just kill their hostages and those they perceive to be enemies – they subject them to the most brutal and bloody methods imaginable. Simply horrendous! If they want them dead, why not just shoot them?

[friedgreentomato]

Why is any extremist so barbaric - look at what the IRA have done!

[sandyRoe]

Or the 'Shankill Butchers'. They too saw mutilating their victims as sending out a very powerful message.

[naomi24]

Don't they generally shoot people?

[RATTER15]

I think that being brought up thinking that public be-headings and cutting off of limbs in a public performance as punishment, opens up the restraints of being civilised, when they are taught that behaving this way is being civilised especially when these things are carried out under the legal and a religious flag, the next step to acting like a primitive animal and hacking someone to death in a public street isn't too far away!

It is just very fortunate that most Muslims arent affected to the same degree and dont follow the teachings of Quaran.

[daisya]

You're probably right Ratter, plus I think that pent up anger and aggression just won't let them stop at what they've done...it's frenzied attack or nothing it seems.

[jim360]

No it shouldn't LW.

In answer to the question... I wish I knew. I think it's just the latest wave of barbarism from extremists and is sadly not that unusual.

[Brenden]

Are you suggesting we sentence them under their beloved Shari'a law littlewilly. ummm - a thought - only I do not want their islamic laws to solve our judiciary system or anything to do with our way of life.

[jomifl]

I think it is because they are ruled by their emotions rather than their intellect. It seems to me that a relatively small number of cynically calculating, imams with megalomaniac leanings, manipulate a bunch of easily led emotional people who have lost their ability to reason due to repeated exposure to a religion based on control. Once reason and individual responibility is replaced by faith and blind obedience then atrocities are often the result.

[Little Willy]

The terrorist said himself an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth so im suggesting that for acts of terrorism like this commited here maybe we should bring back hanging.

[jim360]

In other words -- you agree with him?

[bazwillrun]

Because these filth are still living in the middle ages

[Zacs-Master]

Surely they wouldn't be 'extreme' if they just shot people.

[jim360]

Having got so far LW it's now just a question of whether or not his grievances were legitimate?

No. We should never sink to this level.

[chrisgel]

It's simply to terrify their enemies. I think the Americans call it Shock and Awe.

[naomi24]

Chris, //It's simply to terrify their enemies.//

I can understand people shooting to kill, but I seriously cannot understand a mindset such as this, one completely and utterly devoid of empathy or compassion for the pain of another human being. After the slaughter in Woolwich, that madman’s performance when he stood there holding a meat cleaver dripping in blood telling us we will never be safe made my blood run cold.

[ChillDoubt]

I was in Belfast on the 19th of March 1988.
Myself and a couple of colleagues had popped up from Armagh City to do some shopping.
As we walked around the city centre, we noticed the heli activity and remembered it was Mac Brádaigh's funeral. No big deal, we were safe enough and would be nowhere near it.
On our return to Armagh, the news headlines were talking of an attack.
My legs turned to jelly and I nearly vomited as the horror of knowing I'd been only a mile or so away from Corporals Wood and as they were attacked, stripped and savagely beaten by a baying mob, ending in execution.
The attack in Woolwich brought all that back.

[naomi24]

Chill, but for these people bloody, barbaric, beheading, along with stoning people to death, is the usual form of execution. For goodness sake, why do they feel such brutality is necessary? Surely death is enough for them - or perhaps not?

[ChillDoubt]

That should have read Corporals Wood and Howes.

I really don't know Naomi, murder isn't enough for some, they want to revell in the barbarity more than the death.