BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Just so I understand the rules, if I swing a golf club in a Canadian Tire and say Jesus told me to do it, I'm just another crazy; but if I say Allah told me to do it, Im a perfectly sane Islamist and the public is under terrorist attack?
You'd be crazy on both accounts.
Muslims believe that the last person Allah spoke to was Mohammed, thus he was the last prophet and that's a cornerstone principle of their faith. Any Muslim claiming instruction from Allah would be a heretic and would be killed by their own people.
That said, sane Christians do not randomly attack innocent people because nothing in the Bible calls them to do so.
Sane Muslims do this because their holy book commands them to kill infidels and Jews and to force them to submit to Islam or else to submit to Islamic rule and pay the jizya (tax) that non-Muslims pay to Muslims.
Muslim attacks are generally not random (despite our media trying to paint them that way) and the attacks are typically not 'Lone Wolf' attacks but instead involve several people. The Ariana Grande bombing just recently involved a significant logistics network that involved players in at least four countries.
This last attack involved multiple individuals in the attack itself and indications from law enforcement is that up to forty other people were peripherally involved although some of them may well have unknowingly been supporting the attack in small ways. These people will hopefully be cleared if that's justified and then they'll be released from custody.
In any case, all of the evidence in the recent Muslim attacks are void of any issues of mental illness.
This woman in Toronto may not be mentally ill, either. She may well have read 'Inspire Magazine' which has published several articles describing just this kind of attack that's meant to interfere in the daily life of the infidel.
The point is to make you feel unsafe at work, at the store, and at home. The intent is to intimidate you into surrendering what freedom you have left in order to obtain some hope that the Muslims won't kill you.
There's nothing crazy about that at all if you look at it from their point of view.