Yes, the Navy Yard Shooter Was a Buddhist
Despite the fact that, like Buddhism, Islam prohibits murder, the two are treated quite differently when it comes to its adherents committing acts of violence.
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Religion and Violence? Short Answer: “Religion” Does Not Exist in a Vacuum
It is patronizing to reduce religion to “ethics” or “values.”
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Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?
RD bloggers have rightly asked the question of the depth of the “piety” of the Tsarnaevs. That too misses a vital point. I do not for a moment discount the sincerity of the feelings for Islam by the Tsarnaev brothers. But, what Islam was the object of those feelings? I would offer that it was for an “Internet Islam”—for an abstract, compact, easily rendered Islam, fed by the representations flowing from out of the ether!
Read MoreWhat to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In
Jenik Radon, professor of international affairs: “not likely this was part of a larger plot or movement.”
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