"Because he was an Islamist".
For the record:
According to this morning's Sunday Times police are treating the killer as having no clear terrorist links and are "inclined to see him as a lone wolf - "a self starter"" whose behaviour indicates that he "does not seem to be Islamic"
Obviously as mad as Breivik, or not, as the case may be!
"Bales and Breivik acted alone".
So, it would appear, did Mohammed Merah.
Jim Carroll