"Jim has said that they were mad and therefore cannot be believed when they said they did it for Islam."
I have said from the beginning that there are a whole host of reasons why this murder took place - I'll spell it out.
Muslims have a genuine grudge about what is happening to them in Britain and what is happening to Muslim countries abroad, largely to protect oil supplies and sell weapons (as former home secretary Vince Cable said "we sometimes sell arms to States who have appalling records of human rights" (or similar). The murderously cynical refusal to become involved in Syria is also a major factor.
There are those within the Muslim communities who would exploit this for religious purposes and a tiny handful of young Muslims have undoubtedly succumbed to their arguments, but to claim that religion is in any way the cause of this killing without recognising the causes of discontent in the first place is to cop out, and to claim the something shouted after a brutal event such as this (while ignoring everything else that was said) is pure manipulation of the facts.
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who carries out such an act is totally round the twist and anything they have to say has to be has to be regarded as irrational, Especially directly following the killing.
But anybody who takes such an event to prove a whole community as being culturally untrustworthy (that is the logical conclusion of such an accusation) is equally round the twist - sick, sick, sick.
Don and I aren't joined at the hip - We've never met, but he seems a nice, compassionate feller - breath of fresh air considering the company....
Jim Carroll