retrocop - //Can no one admit that religion and it's tenets may have played a significant part in this would be murderer's actions? Instant excuse for the Nice butcher as well. //
I have opined at length on other threads, that using a twisted interpretation of religious faith is never a valid reason for violence - not matter by whom it is committed - so yes, I will be delighted to concur that religion played a part in this man's actions.
But it's not that simple is it?
It is not 'religion' that played a part, it is this unbalanced individual's personal interpretation of his faith that made him behave this way.
That is why continual combinations of lazy journalism and scare-mongering leads sections of the public to link all Islam with all terrorism, which is patently not the case.