[CaberTosser]

Just as there's no such thing as reverse racism, there's no such thing as reverse terrorism; they are simply racism and terrorism. There is no justification in what that person did, just as there is no justification in what jihadists do. He had no way of knowing what was in those people's hearts & minds, or what they had done in their lives.

It seems also that many people have a short memory, or a memory of convenience as there was the attack on a Mosque just this past January in Montreal where 6 people were killed. How does something 5 months ago in our own nation get forgotten? I think it's because people are callous towards the suffering of groups with whom they can't identify. It's pretty cut and dried that this attacker is just as bad a person as jihadists because he attacked random people. Without being able to identify to 100% certainty if the target of their hate is an active jihadist then one simply cannot justify such an action, they clearly just hate the entire group (its called racism). Heck, even if they knew a person was up to no good (knowledge being way different than suspicion) its certainly not up to them to pursue revenge, there are a myriad of police agencies to officially deal with bad guys. The instant it's OK to run amok committing summary executions then we'll have lost both our society and our humanity. It's the same as that white supremacy group that just popped up in AO's radar last week, hatred painted with a wide roller.

I can't believe people can endorse such an attack and delude themselves to believe that's any different than what the mentally ill and brainwashed among the Muslims (or any other group) who attack western societies do. Evil is evil, there's no justifying it. If someone is attacking by all means defend yourself and others, but for Pete's sake only counter-attack an actual attacker, not people who resemble them or who happen to be similarly pigmented or who might have attended the same place of worship, eaten at the same cafe, shopped at the same store, etc.

When a white person goes on a killing rampage we investigate what drove them to their criminal act, we don't go and kill a bunch of random white people in retaliation because they were in the same identifiable group just to be on the safe side....