jesus that's terrible news

everythings racist, its 2015, get with the times you ignorant assholes.

"Oh well at least no one is commenting conspiratorial stuff"
That's because everyone still in shock, give it a couple days and you'll see conspiracy theories abound

"Buddhist's slaughtering children"

It happened in Cambodia

"I thought that was Donald Trump, then again he hates everyone"
He probably hates his fellow white people as well tbh

Alex Jones is already capitalizing on this. that guy is such a piece of shit.

Newt Gingrich too

whats jones sayin? he usually screams HOAX when its a white nerdy christian dude doing the killing but i figure he's not goin for that angle this time

lol forgot who gingrich was man. i remember during the 2012 election some kid would wear gingrich and santorum shirts to school, pretty lol

Fuck ann Coulter she needs to fucking joke on a dick so fucking worthless

how is newt fucking gingrich relevant in 2015. lol the dude who said let's colonize the moon

Agreed

(omg I agree with sach)

wait which member died?

Crew member, not musician.

"People will use whatever means they can to justify such heinous actions."

Fucking THIS.

What ISIS do with Islam is the same method the Westboro baptist church use to justify their own negativity. They cherrypick the information they want and make that seem like the most important part of their religion. Extremist groups will always take the most attention, and so that is the image of Islam everybody sees. But much like the Westboro baptist church, they are not representative of their religion. There is so much more to the bible than being anti-gay, anti-abortion and picketing the funerals of dead military men and women, just as there is so much more to Islam than what ISIS portray. You can use anything to support your ideals if you focus on a specific part and ignore everything else, and that is what's happening. Context IS important. ISIS are not the ones preaching the peaceful nature of Islam and then being hypocritical by killing people, they are ignoring those parts in favour of 'kill the non believers'. It is the peaceful, neighbour-down-the-road Muslims who are defending their religion. If Christians started stoning adulterers to death, that would be ignoring the 'love thy neighbour' bits and pieces in favour of a small part. This is what ISIS are doing.

Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to blindly agree with and follow every part of your religion, or take everything literally, to belong to that religion.

What ISIS do with Islam is the same method the Westboro baptist church use to justify their own negativity.

whoa are you that stupid dude? the westboro baptists are awful scum but i've never seen them slaughter innocent people

One of these days there will be an explosion at a gay parade by groups like that, I'm serious

"There may be religious motives, but they are nothing but just that, motives."

I take it you mean justification? Don't you concede that beliefs generate behavior by saying they motivate?

"In fact, suppressing beliefs will probably make matters worse; that will alienate even more members of society."

Not sure what you mean by "suppressing beliefs" but I remember reading a study about islamic fundamentalism in europe which claimed that fundamentalism is lower in countries with less religious privileges. Obviously this in itself doesn't suggest causation, different countries have different demographics, and economic migrants are less problematic than refugees, but setting up government funded faith schools (what's been done in britain) isn't necessarily the best policy to reduce sectarianism. Also the teachings haven't always aligned with western conceptions of freedom and equality.

Anyway it's 6.40 am and haven't slept so can't stay up and argue

I don't think islam promotes violence way more than the old testament does tbh, the main difference is that in the middle east the rulling powers have teached whole generations to believe in a religion in such a powerful way that they end up with extremly radical ideas.

Have you guys checked how was Iran before the revolution in the 70's? The country was still islamic back then but in a tollerable way. I don't think religion is the problem but how you approach to it

The entire country of Iran used to basically be middle America, but Islamic. Islam can be peaceful.