Possibly a great many of them are, especially the foot soldiers.
But not all of them, of course. I could use a term other than nutter if you like? the disaffected? The social outcasts? The psychotic?
Anyone who blows himself up in a theatre amongst teen age girls and their parents clearly has something very wrong with them.
Yes. Clearly something wrong with them, like following a savage, barbaric medieval religion which appears to be growing in strength and even at a state level revels in this sort of enlightened behaviour.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-s...n-s-sharia-law
For one thing, it is far older than medieval. All religions have barbarism within them. There are horrific passages in the bible containing absurd and contradictory laws with appalling punishment. Unfortunately there are some in every religion that are drawn towards this historical interpretation to support what are very modern desires and conflicts.
For radical Islamic terrorst read KKK. Every religion has them....
Yes, and if Christian or Jewish fundamentalism currently existed on anything like the same scale as Islamic fundamentalism, I (and I am sure Charlie too) would be condemning it in equally strong terms.
Andreas Breavik, Dylann Roof....these people are as worthy of our contempt as any muslim extremist and no-one worth listening to would ever claim otherwise.
No, because there is nothing in their holy book that compels them to go to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Christian rule.
However, if you were to ask me whether the most rational, logical way for a practicing dutiful Christian to view homosexuality, is to believe it is sinful, then I would say yes.