Terrorist Attack Or Hatred Attack?

[saintpeter48]

Why are most news outlets saying that last nights attack was a 'terrorist attack'!
Thats not the way I see it, it was some deluded idiot, with his own agenda, who felt the need to attack people who follow Islam, surely thats not a terrorist attack.
Has it been given that title to try and appease muslims?

[sp1814]

But then - what do either of us know! We're not in a position to understand the process of radicalisation. Neither of us are experts here. I'm only going on what I've seen reported after each attack. The Crusades never get mentioned.

[naomi24]

You're not listening widely enough.

[sp1814]

Okay naomi24

[naomi24]

sp, //a much stronger 'reason' would be pictures and videos relating to events that are happening in the ME now,//

You’re going around in circles. You’re saying that retribution is the reason for attacks by Islamic terrorists which is what I said - although I don't believe that's the sole reason - but we won't go down that route. Similarly the man who ran his car into a group of people outside a mosque did it in retribution for Islamic terrorist attacks. Tit for tat all round!

[sp1814]

I don't believe there is a single reason behind radicalisation.

It's more likely to be a number of influences.

But yes, I think we are now going to enter a tit-for-tat period.

[naomi24]

sp, I didn't say there was.

[Khandro]

Islam is 80% politics and 20% religion, there is just enough religion to hate everyone else, but combined with the politics, there isn't enough to love anybody - including women.

Taken from the collected thoughts of Professor Khandro

[tamborine]

As Sadiq said "part of living in a city"!

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// But yes, I think we are now going to enter a tit-for-tat period. ///

That is generally the case, when naomi gets involved.

[scooping]

The Crusades never get mentioned: No, because they were 700 years ago. Like the storming of The Temple or the Babylonian Captivity.

[naomi24]

aog, Oops … silly me. I disagreed with you elsewhere this morning. I’m guessing this is a ‘hatred attack’ in response to that. ;o)

scooping, //The Crusades never get mentioned: No, because they were 700 years ago. //

As I said earlier, they do. Resentment has continued across the centuries.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-urges-more-attacks-on-western-disbelievers-9749512.html

Rageh Omaar, the Muslim journalist born in Somalia did an interesting documentary in which he said that radical Islam is still fighting the Crusades.