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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
While I agree with the above, it is also dangerous in my view to quickly lump "discuss Islam" with "blame Islam" which is also often done. I think there are some legitimate issues that should be openly discussed, without fear of being outed as an Islamaphobe.
In this case, I would like to learn more about this guy's motivation. I don't think simply having an ISIS flag is enough, but there are suggestions that he was known to have radicalized ideas. How those came about are important to learn about and to discuss.
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I agree with you - learning about how and why he was radicalized is an important topic, with benefits for the future. And Islam itself has aspects to it that give rise to this radicalization that should be freely discussed.
Making assumptions about his motivations and influences before they are known by way of harmful and misinformed generalizations is the issue. A fixation on
where he is from and wanting to send him "back there" is however a large telltale that lines are being drawn in people's minds that he and his community are not of us but apart from us.