That's horrifying. One area where I can agree with George W. Bush is in how to talk about these kinds of acts: they're evil.
The President and the two major candidates shared some platitudes about "religious extremists"--but these guys are worse than that. They're nihilists--there's no other way to explain these kinds of acts. To take out dozens of innocent people (and it could have been hundreds) and in the process killing yourself--it shows a callous disregard for human life that can only be described as amoral. They may cloak themselves in religion--but if your religion tells you to kill innocent people and to love nothing and hate everything, then, well--you're doing it wrong.
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