Muslim woman in Hijab pushed into a moving train by a man in London

There is no strawman here. I have never claimed that she was attacked because she was wearing a headscarf, only that it is very reasonable to assume that this may have been the case.

I would certainly assert that it is highly unlikely that he is motivated by anti-immigrant sentiment.

As for any anti-Muslim sentiment, it is for you to prove your case. If you want to adduce evidence that he was motivated by anti-Islamic bias, I am certainly happy to consider it.

I'm just simply asking whether you think Sinjar is more strategic to IS or the Kurds.

If it's more strategic to IS, then they will launch attacks to take it back.

No, that doesn't necessarily follow. ISIL commanders will carefully consider whether they would lose more fighters than they would gain. An unsuccessful attack is worse than no attack at all; you lose fighters, you lose credibility, you undermine your position in other places from which you have to remove troops to man your counterattack.

ISIL could certainly attempt to retake it; it is highly unlikely they would be successful at this time, when there are over 7000 Kurdish fighters in and around the town, when Kurdish artillery is set up on the heights overlooking the town, when US and British aircraft and surveillance assets are still focused on the area and British/American special forces are still in the area.

An ISIL attack on such a substantial force would fail. ISIL has already demonstrated they cannot prevail over a small Kurdish force supported by American airpower as happened at Kobane, and that was with an open road between Kobane and Raqqa along which they could send considerable reinforcements.

You seem to think the mere fact ISIL wants it back means they would be successful in a counterattack. You also assume that ISIL has substantial forces they can simply send to counterattack Sinjar. Even if ISIL did have perhaps a couple of thousand fighters ready to counterattack, to move them up to the battle area would be a massacre. There's no way they could move along Highway 47 in large numbers without being spotted and attacked by Western air power.

As for the homosexual part-there are Christian communities in Africa that have a similar view on gays. Russia is not a Muslim country at all and yet look how they treat gays. I do not disagree with your point at all, I agree that the Koran and Muslim nations do not respect gays as worthy of having basic human rights or even the right to exist. I am just saying that all the countries who treat gay people badly are not all Muslim.

As for the womens' rights issue the Koran clearly states that a woman must produce four witnesses to accuse a man of rape and as a result even Dubai (one of the more open and tolerant Middle Eastern nations) adopts this view; see the case of the Danish woman who was raped and got a longer sentence than her attacker.

And I also agree with you in your last paragraph. In particular the part where you state you don't have to like Islam or its values. No culture that is so hostile to criticism and at the same time forceful of its views on those who do not wish to see it should be given in to.

You seem to know everything but how about you answer the question

What's the death count of IS members in Sinjar?

hypocrisy pisses everyone off but mate stfu and look at the video; she could've died.

Funny isn't it, muslims complain when the press mention a person faith in certain crimes but lap it up when the same terminology can be used to show us how much a victim someone is

No, the strawman was your claim that the other poster claimed that the platform was empty. They didn't.

So what would motivate a man to push someone out in front of a moving train?

Except that's not what was said. They requested to see images of other women on the platform, why ask such a thing if they didn't believe the platform was quiet? I'm also sceptical of the assertion that the section of the platform she was on was quiet. We can see people rushing into the footage within 3 seconds of her being pushed, which means people were probably standing the same distance away from him as she was but towards the left.

Baconandsauce essentially asserted that my assumption of other people being around her on the platform was unjustified

By which you mean to say, "Oh no, we got one that can read. He doesn't answer in simplistic, monosyllabic grunts. Burn him"

I'm not going to answer further questions after this, it's clear you're just asking silly questions to which you don't know the answer in the deluded belief you're going to find some fact that "catches him out". You were wrong about Mount Sinjar, you really need to get over it.

iirc it was about 150 ISIL fighters killed in Sinjar, about 20 at the cement factory on the road to Ibrat Ash and another 15 at Baaj

Madness? Of course you've already discounted that possibility for emotional reasons (it would "condone" the act, in your words).

The reality is that none of us know why he did it, which makes it highly inappropriate to push the narrative that this is about the oppression of Muslims

Nah,nothing to do with proximity. It's because she was a Muslim. End of

It is clearly reasonable to assume that the questions relate to the visible area of the platform - probably around 10m. The victim and attacker are standing in the middle of this clear area. If anyone was standing within 5m to the left, we would see the top of their head in the bottom of the shot (indoor CCTV cameras have wide-angle lenses).

Now, I don't know if you have been on the London Underground, but a West End station with a clear area of platform at least 10m wide is pretty quiet! One thing that I have noticed that causes sections of a busy platform to clear is the presence of "The Nutter". I have had it happen to me, you walk out of the access tunnel onto a crowded platform and see a clear space further up. "Oh good" you think to yourself, as you stand in the middle of it. No struggling with the crowds. But wait, what is that behind me? Oh bugger!
She is clearly on her phone so either not concentrating on what is going on around her, or deliberately trying to ignore it.

Proximity cannot be ruled out because there is clearly no one else (other than the couple at the far end) on that section of the platform.

You have 7500 troops, heavy machinery, airpower, drones, tanks and superior firepower descending on one little town and you only kill around 175 IS members.

According to some reports, there are an estimated 600 IS members in Sinjar so unless 400 members are holed up in the various pockets that are holding out (remember where you said that all roads leading to Sinjar are probably blocked), we should expect 400 IS deaths which is not bad going when you outnumber the enemy 10-1, and with airpower, and with heavier firepower.

How many Muslims have to be pushed in front of trains or be attacked before you mentally declassify their attackers as simply "being mad"?

But she didn't

Let's stick with the facts shall we rather than getting pissy over what could have but actually didn't happen.

Excellent post and spot on.