Original post by swiss_cheeseMaybe it was, maybe it wasn't - but the point is, this guy saw the Arab name and instantly linked it to terrorism, which is racist.
And Sharia Law literally translates to "religious law", so you'd have to be a lot more specific.
Furthermore my point which I have been making for so long is that religion did not motivate this person to stab three people. It definitely has a role, and it is the veil behind which he is justifying his actions, but these people don't just wake up one day and decide to kill in the name of Islam. So you lot can stop gallivanting around blaming Islam for all of the problems when it is clearly a 1500 year old scripture which is more open to interpretation than ever before, and start blaming the disgusting murderers who warp it to justify their actions. Attacking the ideology as if it is any different to Christianity in the regard of brutality is shameful, you would not be criticising Islam to nearly the same extent if terrorists didn't purport to carry out attacks in its name. Terrorists kill more Muslims than any other group of people, anyone studying this can clearly see that these people don't give a **** about islam or Muslims, they're just broken people who have become radicalised for the various reasons listed earlier.
On the other hand, lets assume you're right, and you are to an extent. Islam is violent, barbaric, just like many religions. But do you think gallivanting around spamming "religion of peace" and being hateful towards Islam is the solution? Do you think your words of wisdom have made ANY of these Muslims, who have lived under their government's form of Sharia Law their entire lives, who know nothing other than Islamic government, change their minds? Its similar to someone coming over here and criticising democracy, its our idea of the best form of government and it is all that many of us have lived under. You can go ahead and say "but democracy doesn't promote killing gays, etc..." but there are so many things which can also be criticised about it, but the underlying point is that these people are not going to suddenly wake up and realise Islam is violent, therefore your constant criticisms of Islam towards some of these people are falling on deaf ears, making Muslims feel segregated and contributing towards the influx of hatred which motivates them to become radicalised.
Its the same rhetoric in Brexit, you simply have no leniency to accept a perspective that condemns your own, and immediately antagonising the Muslim community by labelling them as Islamic terrorists at every sight of an Arab name is doing more harm than good. Go ahead and say I'm an apologist, but all religion is disgusting to me, its horrible that someone should get a better afterlife for praying to a God or doing xyz every day, but religion isn't going to magically disappear overnight, therefore constantly, relentlessly criticising it, in any form, is pointless. Once the fundamental criticisms have been made vocal, thats fine, but this perpetual sequence of criticising Islam again and again and again when clearly Islam is only a tiny piece to a much bigger puzzle, this is damaging and I have no doubt that some of the recent terror attacks were motivated partially by hatred towards Islam.