There is indeed great enthusiasm for capital punishment in Islamic states. That is just one of many reasons why I do not wish our regimes in Western Europe to resemble theirs. But getting back to random killing... Which country and which age shall we talk about? Shall we recall the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919, or perhaps the the Dresden Massacre of 13/14 February 1945, ? or perhaps the entire bombing strategy of targeting residential areas in the latter stages of World War II. Indeed the Germans started it, but does that detract from the fact that when we did it, it was still genocide? I am appalled by the terrorist attacks by Islamic nutters anywhere. I can still spare a thought for the relatives of some eighty Afgahn civilians, who were killed by a foreign invader's air force on Sunday. It is going to be bloody hard work to convince them that terrorists are the worst people in the world.