Our human species is susceptible to extreme manipulation and extreme violence. The 'flavour' of the ideology (religion, tribe, sect, race) is a red herring. We do this to each other all over history and all over the world. Its baked into human DNA.
It is all too easy to fall into an us/them mentality and when we believe 'an eye for an eye' and 'if I sacrifice myself my tribe will be better off'....then this crap happens.
I say that we shouldn't give these thugs ANY satisfaction of media exposure...since it is pretty obvious that is their mandate.
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