Is the man a Muslim or is he part of any terrorist group.
Till we know speculation needs to stop as he is only suspected of being a terrorist.
If he is mentally ill he is very different from terrorist and you cannot lump all murders under one heading.
It is terrible such a thing has happened. It was terrible when real terrorist killed our people on the bridge.
It was terrible when they flew planes full of people into buildings. Terrorist are killing innocent people and we cannot
expect the relatives or those hurt by such acts not to kick out. Two wrongs never make a right.
I wish all this killing and harming others would end. But that was the reason for terrorist attacks to undermine the security of people and make them turn on each other. We have to refrain from doing evil and from retaliation.
In all cases this not any different to our children in Manchester who were murdered in their own home town for doing nothing wrong.
This could be retaliation but Manchester wasn't and the two are not mutually the same. But both equally horrifying and unacceptable in todays society.
Divide and conquer... that is what they are using and who knows if this attack was not pact and parcel of a bigger plan.
We have to hope that peace will come and that the Government will give counseling to families who have been devastated to
stop revenge killings.
You don't have to be a Muslim or a signed up member of a group to be a terrorist.
Anyone can be a terrorist, all you need is the intention to spread fear that stops people going about their daily lives.
If someone who calls themselves a Muslim who has read things by Islamic extreme groups which caused them to act by driving into crowds is a terrorist, then it follows that if some white joe blogs non Muslim reads extremist literature about immigrants or Muslims which causes them to act in the same way, then both are terrorists.
To claim one is a terrorist while the other is mentally ill, would be a double standard.
One that most Muslims won't miss, and it will cause trouble and bad feeling.
I doubt if this person driving his van into Muslims is a relative of the victims of past attacks, but if you excuse him in any way for that, what about those Muslims who have family abroad killed by bombs from "the west" ?
Does the distance of loved ones really make a difference?
Should they be excused in part too?
I think we have to do some soul searching here, to make sure we are fair in the way we treat Muslims and non Muslims who attack in this way.
