I don’t think it has a thing to do with the man’s religion. He was clearly insane.

It’s wrong to try to pin this to Islam.

I have met many Muslims whom I’ve found to be the most enlightened, fair and tolerant religious people I’ve ever known.

I think you will find that the savage tendencies that the media concentrates our attention on are more cultural than religious patterns.

But in the one you just described, I don’t think that can be ascribed to anything but that one man’s cruel intentions.

I’d like to thank you for the comments above on the nature of the act in the title article. I believe in people, though all too often in the news, all we see are the more violent aspects of the Islamic faith in action. By expressing solidarity with the victim (if indeed the story is even true), you have helped restore a little of my belief that people of all faiths can be sincerely good people. One thing I had begun to believe is that Islam was all aggressors with no balancing factors (hawks and doves in american terminology), and I am glad that the human tragedy was recognised without regard to the faith of the victim.

Dave

I’m not saying that I have yo apply my rules, you misunderstand the point I’m trying to say,

Knowing that there is god, even with absence of laws, you know there is god if your mind speaks to you to do something stupid, but the atheist has nothing to consider.

Imagine with me, what would happen if there is no law in USA?

People will kill each other, and steal each othe, for example Katrina, you have seen how people acted with out law.

In Egypt we live without law, but we know if we run away from the government, we are not going to run away from god, even though I’m not saying that Egypt is perfect.

Without people believing in God, people will do bad things, not afraid from conseqences. Atheiset will think that they can kill and they go to jail or got excuted and that’s it.

But it’s not that way, there is a god and he sees every thing, and any unjust done, he will take care of it.

You don’t want Islam rules, because they will make your society is better, without alcaholic and without gambling, which both of them destroy any society, Prostituition, do you think that most of women who works in this field wants to do that, some of them has no money and some of forced to do it, and if the society helped them, they might be better people in society.

Driving, women drive in Egypt, including my sister, woman always has her role in Islam, what happen now is culture thing, is not from Islam in any thing. Please read about womens in Islam on our prophet’s day.

No vlues, no rules, you see your self coming from Apes, so you are going to act like them, like animals.
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You know, this is another issue I have with theists. They have this mistaken idea that just because we dont worship some fairy tale, we have no morality and want to live in a chaotic anarchic society. I guess it is to be expected when they think with a book or are spoon fed wisdom from a priest/preacher/cleric whatever you want to insert there.

To be clear: Your assumptions are wrong. I just dont want MY rules to necessarily defined by YOUR book. I want my rules to be defined by what is applicable to a secular body because that is the ONLY wai to be fair to everyone of every religion and non-religions. An example, if you muslims ruled America I could easily some stupid laws being passed like stores being prohibited from selling pork products or women not being allowed to get driver’s licences. I could come up with a ton of these. I have similar issues with christians in charge. Not being able to buy booze in southern states on sunday anyone? How about gambling being illegal? How about prostitution? Hell if a woman wants to perform a service and get paid for it, it should be between her and her clients not some jackass christian and their little book.

Well that did turn into a completely off topic mess. Oh well.