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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As with many other situations no matter the political/religious views and/or ethnicity of the victims / perpetrator, this is looking more and more like a specific scenario.  Could anything be more local than parking issues?  No need to politicize this.  [/quote]

Well, you know, they were executed. So.[/quote]

[b]A parking dispute and religious hatred are not mutually-exclusive.[/b] I sort of get your obsession with the term "execution-style" killing because you may think I am comparing it to the beheadings that have received so much publicity. That was not my intention. To me, when three unsuspecting and defenseless people are shot at point-blank range inside their own home, "execution-style" is an appropriate description. 
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This seems inconsistent with your arguments that ISIS is not motivated by religion. You're arguing on one hand that ISIS has nothing to do with religious hatred, but on the other hand that these poor people were killed by religious hatred.[/quote]

Please quote where I said that ISIS is not motivated by religion. I did not say it. My argument in the other thread was that religious texts are not the most important factor in understanding a religion. Rather, understanding how the religion is practiced on a day to day basis is more important. Religions are adapted to the needs of their practitioners. ISIS has multiple motivations and I am not sure that religion is the primary one of those motivations, but it is certainly among them. However, their religious motivation comes form Wahhabism.

As for this case, if there was a parking dispute -- and this seems like a very unlikely resolution of such a thing -- would the outcome have been the same if the dispute were with three atheists or there people whose religion could not be determined? What is known is that someone with strongly-held religious views killed people who were identifiably religious. I don't know what motivated him, but I am doubtful that their religion didn't have a role.
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