Some more on their background

I heard some podcasters speculating that was the case. I don’t think there’s any way to know. The choice of an Islamic target is indeed somewhat puzzling if their deepest hatred was of Jews, as they said.

Saw an interview with a seemingly civilized Muslim woman; fashionably dressed, upper class Britspeak, so forth. Asked about the Charlie Hebdo murders, she said violence should be condemned. But mocking Islam is a bad thing. IOW, next time somebody mocks Islam, we’ll have more violence to be condemned and don’t forget it.

To construct a clumsy metaphor, this coin does not do a fifty-fifty when flipped. Most times, it comes up the same way. Jew victims vs. Muslim victims; reciprocal sympathy. Remember where to put your money.

These two were really off the beam. Kids need parental and social attention. Those with such issues require more. All the time they’re on their screens, they don’t need their parents and it doesn’t look as if they need attention at all. So….they get less.

The rage comes first. There have always been angry young men.
There has also always been hatred based on ethnic and religious differences.

What has changed in recent years is there is a group in our society that now believes it benefits from stoking those hatreds. It sees angry young people willing to commit violence as foot soldiers in a war against their opponents. It is also not above fostering parallel hatred that internally disrupts and discredits its opponents. We’ve been here before, about 160 years ago, with the same group doing the same things.