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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Jihadist Wannabees Turn Into Rampage Killers

We have just suffered YET ANOTHER mass killing, this time in San Bernardino, California. There seems to be some confusion because the episode seemed to be an example of  a "rampage" killing (where a person kills a bunch of people in an act of personal rage) instead of a terrorist act.  On the other hand, there were also many of the characteristics of a planned terror act.

I don't really know, but I suspect that we have a case of people who were preparing to carry out a classical terror act relating to a radical Islamicist scenario but allowed an incident which invoked personal rage to result in "premature" action.  Bear in mind, terrorist are not usually people with all their oars in the water at the same time.  Yes, many are similar to partisan fighters in NAZI occupied France (e.g. during WWII). Just because we do not agree with the more extreme forms of Islam, particularly those that seek to impose "sharia law", does not mean that those people are raving lunatics.  Look at people who believe in extreme, ultra-strict forms of mainstream Christianity. It was not too long ago that whole states in America enforced strict "blue laws".  I can remember girls being arrested for wearing "short shorts".

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