"discuss the guilty people and what they did, not their religion" ....No, Marty, their religion is much of what feeds their actions. It needs to be discussed.

I'm a very un-religious person. I'm fine with the idea of something much bigger than us out there (a "god" if you like). But! I'm satisfied that none of the various religions have the mystery of what it is and how we should deal with it figured out right.

In fact sometimes I think religion is daft....I suppose if I had to become religious I'd pick Buddism...pretty mellow stuff there, that fat guy statue at the entrance of Chinese restaurants doesn't look too harmful to me.

I'm not particularly nauseated by the use of religion as a terror tactic. Bad people will do what works. Rather, I'm just astonished that in this day and age young men believe so much in what they're fed by their religious leaders as to go to the extreme of blowing themselves up.

Marty: "there have been plenty of bands of murderous christians throughout history. See Crusades, American Indians." ....yes, but that wasn't me and what happened then can't possibly be used to justify what is happening now.

It's all bad and it's all very sad.