I flew into Europe yesterday to be greeted with news of Terror Attacks in Paris—and we should not forget the recent Charlie Hebdo attacks too.
At the heart of the conversation once again is religion; a group of religious people sincerely believe a celestial father has commanded them to kill others, and reward them with 77 virgins once the mission has been accomplished.
Of course there are evil and psychopaths all around who would not hesitate to kill others—but you cannot deny the fact that when armed with the above doctrine, a rational person would easily become a psychopath and already psychopaths would become more diabolical.
Religion, especially Islam is a mother lode of bad ideas and until we decide to have the difficult conversations on the falsity of killing others to become a martyr as well as condemn the other dangerous doctrines, we will face more of such heinous attacks.
Sure, there is always going to be politics interlaced with such atrocious killings, but we cannot rule out the key motivation and doctrines which easily create these human killing machines.
Over 128 innocent people have been killed plus 8 others have died killing these people. Several others have been injured in the multiple but coordinated Paris attacks.