"This thread is about the massacre of British and Irish people in Tunisia, "
I most sincerely hope it isn't - it should be about HUMAN BEINGS being massacred - whatever their origins
As far as I know, there has been no suggestion that they were killed because of where they came from.
Sousse s a popular holiday resort for British tourists, but it could just as easily have been Germans or Americans
You bewail the fact that the victims were British and Irish, if you wish - the rest of us will mourn the loss of human life and try to understand why it happened.
You have been given the obvious reasons for the rise in popularity of radically extreme groups - you can blame the internet, if you wish - lets the West off the hook.
" oversimplification of the scourge of terrorism."
Not in the slightest - every action produces a reaction.
Millions of oppressed Arabs tried to better their way of life by protests
The West sat on its hands, did nothing to help and continued to sell weapons and give respectability to the oppressors.
Within a fortnight of the outbreak of the Arab Spring protests, Cameron hosted a massive arms fair in London, it's main targets, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
It is more than likely that the Homs snipers were trained with ammunition.
Britain sold armoured cars and riot control equipment to the Assad regime and later it was found that Britain supplied chemicals which could well have gone into the weapons used against the Syrian people.
Earlier, some of the electronic equipment sold to the Assads were used in his torture chambers.
All this is custom-made to produce a reaction.
As far as Israel is concerned - there are 5 million Palestinian Muslims scattered all over the globe having been driven out and refused the right to return by the regime there.
THere is no indication that these killings were in any way ritualistic - they were the act of a madman.   
As was proved in former Yugoslavia, in Rwanda, in Israel, in the Sabra/Shatila refugee camp and other such places, religious fanaticism is in no way confined to one belief and it is aworld-wide phenomenon.
Jim Carroll