So when do think Laila will crack..... Come on man.... there are a billion muslims... People don't need god to go on a kill crazy rampage, all they need is thier mankindedness, God is just the excuse possibly in this case....
The religious thing always reminds me of something more close to me, and is geeky, when I hear about this stuff. I'm sure someone will say I'm "defending" this guy, which I'm not and would be a laughable claim. But this is my issue at times with saying definitively "X caused it, see, because he said/did Y".
I am a geek at heart and played D&D for years upon years. During that time I heard every horrible thing about it possible, and all the horror stories. The ever popular ones of people murdering, or attempting to murder someone, and stating that its because they wanted to "level up in the game" or because "I thought I had powers" or "we were acting out the game" or whatever other idiotic thing. And the press and the religious folks and those looking for ways to sensationalize stories or attack those that are different leap upon it talking about how D&D caused these people to do this.
However, when you look at their history there's mental disorders, there's bad home environments, there's ostricization and extreme bullying, etc.
Yet no, its the games fault.
Its the same thing with people blaming "Doom" for Columbine, Blink 182 for their child hanging themselves, or a plethora of movies for a person taking action.
Often times, things act as a trigger or as a way for the brain to rationalize out what it wants to do rather than the true cause. That's not to say it can't add into it. Sure, maybe roleplaying isn't good for someone that is deeply seeking to disconnect with reality. Sure, maybe watching a vigilante movie isn't good for a guy with psychotic delusions. Sure, they likely played a part in it. But its ludicrous to say that its those things faults specifically, because if that was the case and not all the exterior factors that also played into it, we'd be having hordes of people who played First Person Shooters annihilating schools all over.
In many ways Religion is the same way...be it an extreme christian activist killing an abortion clinic doc or a muslim extremist shooting at our troops.
Religion most definitely had a part in it, and may've helped motivate it, but it likely didn't singularly cause it. 2.5 million muslims aren't going into army bases and shooting people. Not even 5% of that population is doign that. So to act like its Religion alone, and that other things about his mental state, the way he was treated, and other issues is an ignorant task to do and just doesn't stand up to logic.
That doesn't excuse what he did, in any way. Finding the reason for why something happened is not the same as saying what happened is okay or fine. It doesn't say that whe he did wasn't religiously motivated, it seems clearly it was. What its saying is its likely far, far more complex then simply "he's a muslim so he killed people", because reality and logic just completely are lacking from that accessment.
