The incident in question highlights the cultural difference between the west and east. In the light of the Koran those people are guilty of murder and will be damned for eternity. The problems between non Muslims and Muslims vary greatly depending on which way the followers of Islam interpret the book.

While followers of Islam believe that the book is the word of the one true God they rely on men to interpret it and we have seen the path that that leads down.

I am not a Christian, neither am I a Muslim although my own moral code and sense of right and wrong, justice and injustice largely follow the tenets of both faiths.

I believe in punishment. The perpetrators shoud be found tried and serve the sentence imposed on them.

Until a religion actually follows the rules laid down in the relevant book, they will remain irrelevent to me and I suspect many other people.

GM