Why should he have not been in the country?

This really has nothing to do with terrorism, or foreign policy - it's some nutjob who fell in love with a colleague.

Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (24 Jul 2016 8.59pm)

I don't think it can be excused, but it can be seen in a rational context, rather than just as 'Muslim crime'. There is a war on apparently, against Terrorism, and notably IS, who unsurprisingly are also retaliating and inspiring people to take action on their behalf against us (and we've been bombing them etc).

Its unacceptable of course, but its a more complex situation than Muslim = Bad, and that kind of mentality feeds itself in to prejudice.

Also its important to remember that we do tend to be a bit selective in what we report. For example, the National Socialist Underground conducted murders against Turkish-German citizens for something like 12 years without a single UK newspaper covering the events. Neo-Nazi's in Germany alone have committed 130 or so race-related murders since East and West Unification.

In 2015 in Germany there were 580 race related attacks on Asylum seekers and shelters, up from 198 the year before. In October last year 13 Germans were arrested for planning to blow up an Asylum Shelter.

Germany has some very serious racial problems, that for a decade went uninvestigated, as the National Socialist Underground managed to 'remain either protected' by intelligence services or 'improperly investigated' for a series of brutal murders of Turkish Muslims across Germany.

In a context of a serious problem I think increasing immigration into Germany is a mistake, without first addressing the hostility from Neo-Nazi and Racist movements that have been conducting violence and terror on migrants, particularly Turkish and Arabic migrants, since the late 90s.

Under the surface, there are very serious problems in Germany about race, Islam, the Far Right and its not overly surprising that elements of radical Islam are feeding into that, especially following the public disaster that was the National Socialist Underground investigations (largely blamed on the victims by the police).

No one sane says that all Muslims are bad.

However, all these killings have been committed by Muslims. Neo Nazi groups do not represent a realistic danger to my family, so they are not the focus of my concern. Frankly, being philosophical is becoming more difficult as each new day brings yet another attack and multiple deaths.

I read that he was denied asylum but was given temporary residency until the war in Syria has ended.

Nor do Muslims. In fact, you are statistically speaking, the biggest threat to your family. Terrorism and death/injury are a staggeringly low threat to individual existence and an almost non-existent probability of cause of death or injury.

Now Radical Islamists, I do see them as a threat, all forms of fundamentalism, even hypothetically secular fundamentalism, are a threat to society (and unchecked usually result in the end result of people being killed for a very stupid 'truth').

The German Neo-Nazi's I think represent an interesting parallel, because of course you could probably choose to describe then as White or Secular Terrorists or White Christian Terrorists even, but no one ever does.