Dave - let's get this clear - racist and cultural hatred and bigotry runs through this and similar debates like "Blackpool" runs through rock.
To suggest that this killing (I keep having to remind myself that this is supposed to be what this is about since it has been turned into platform for bigotry and hatred) is "religious" puts every devout follower of that religion under a cloud of suspicion - just as Keith's "implant" accusation put every single male British Pakistani in the same position.
If it is religious, why aren't we seeing Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" in Southall, Luton, Wolverhampton, Tooting.....?
These two are, I believe, maliciously ignoring all the other factors surrounding acts like these - foreign wars and generations of prejudice and abuse will do for a starter.
All the alternative and additional reasons have been discussed in the press and were fully accepted as reasonable by a mixed panel of politicians on Question Time two weeks ago - yet they were junked here at the outset.
The logic of this being a purely religiously inspired killing just doesn't add up unless you, as they have, refused to consider any other of the recognised factors.
Sure, there are fanatical imams quite happy to use incidents like this to peddle their noxious and deadly wares, but as I pointed out to you earlier, to put it down totally to the religion condemns them all.
Jim Carroll