Knife incident in Russell Square - One dead, five injured

2. There are thousands, if not millions of people with mental health problems, yet the vast majority of them do not carry out such attacks, therefore, you cannot blame mental illness. (Notice that this is exactly the same argument regularly used to claim that Islam is not involved - although I think it would be a step too far to accuse people who claim mental illness is to blame of racism).

Ah, the non-conclusionists are out in force I see. It's like something from a Monty Python sketch, completely surreal. Come out and defend Muslims while they ALL preach your death and destruction, women and children are being raped and murdered on a scale unseen outside of a conflict zone and we have a bunch of pseudo intellectuals looking for the'true meaning' behind it.

If it were fundamentalists of Christianity waging a global crusade against all non-believers I can't help but think the reactions of these people would somehow be different when terror attacks happen.

walob, mental illness manifests itself in different people in variable ways shocker.

Regarding the mental heath issue, there are a couple of points worth considering.

1. By definition, anyone who stabs several people, mows them down with a truck, blows themselves up, etc, etc, is suffering from some sort of mental health issues. You couldn't do it if you weren't.

2. There are thousands, if not millions of people with mental health problems, yet the vast majority of them do not carry out such attacks, therefore, you cannot blame mental illness. (Notice that this is exactly the same argument regularly used to claim that Islam is not involved - although I think it would be a step too far to accuse people who claim mental illness is to blame of racism).

I think it's reasonable to speculate that it's probable to be a religiously-motivated terror attack. You don't need more evidence than a knowledge that we don't often get news stories of this type that don't turn out to be religiously-motivated.

Having said that, other types of attacks do exist as well, for example of the sort committed by Anders Breivik.

Regarding point 1, I would disagree, I think completely sane people could commit such an attack if you view those stabbed as your enemy.

If you replace "religiously motivated" with "ideologically motivated", then your statement is probably accurate.

Are you claiming that an ideology cannot "manifest itself in different people in variable ways"?

I agree that it's more probable that it's an ideologically-motivated attack as opposed to a religiously-motivated attack, by virtue that religious motivations are a subset of ideological ones. I disagree that it affects the truth-value of my statement though. I claim it's reasonable to speculate about religious motivation, which I believe is true irrespective of the actual motivation as it turns out to be.

No.

So you agree that your point was fallacious.

2. There are thousands, if not millions of people with mental health problems, yet the vast majority of them do not carry out such attacks, therefore, you cannot blame mental illness. (Notice that this is exactly the same argument regularly used to claim that Islam is not involved - although I think it would be a step too far to accuse people who claim mental illness is to blame of racism).

was only a matter of time before it happened in Britain (again)

Breaking news is killer is confirmed a Somali of Norweigan nationality. we can assume a specific ideological background or can we not?