Nobody really, just a wee wummin.

Yeah, sort of, but religion is still just a justification, not the root cause. We have to go deeper than that to understand where this homicidal hatred is coming from, and anyway it’s what drives the leaders that is important. You don’t see the leaders blowing themselves up in the market place. Going to meet their maker in glory is not their agenda. It’s about who they are now, and so it is probably really about ego, money, power and sex (or the lack of it), like our own political masters, it’s just that the cultural parameters are different so we don’t recognise it. So we panic.

Let’s not get hysterical, let’s get rational. I worked in the former Yugoslavia during the war there. It seemed to me that people use any old shite (like battles lost or won 500 years ago) to justify what they feel like doing right now. We think we have reasons for doing things but actually we do what we just feel like doing and we come up with reasons to justify it, for example killing strangers and blowing ourselves up. This also applies to all the western leaders who are talking about “war” and wanting to bomb the shit out of Syria and to operate outside parliament because we are “at war”. Everybody needs to calm the fuck down. And get rational. Can we have evidence-based policy please instead of sentimental or fear-based reactions and political posturing? Can we first try to understand the issue properly before we decide who we are going to kill?