No matter what the motivation was

[redstateblues]

This latest massacre will not help improve Americans' perception of Muslims. It's unfortunate because any murder committed by a Muslim falls into the terrorist stereotype that is already out there. The fact that the male shooter was deeply religious fuels that fire, fairly or unfairly. I doubt many people are reassured by some dismissing it as workplace violence.

[el_bryanto]

1. That seems likely

People prefer simple answers to complex questions.

Bryant

[trumad]

2. That's because a great many Americans are fucking Morans.

[True Earthling]

3. My perception of Islam is negative and will remain negative

until major reforms which recognize the rights of women, LGBT's, people of other faiths and atheists are enacted and the harsh punishments of Sharia law are also reformed.

My perception of Muslims will be on a person by person basis. I realize there are different levels of faith and varying levels of practicing Islam. There are some who are Muslim only in name and call themselves Muslim for fear of reprisals if they abandon Islam.. and there are others who are fanatical extremists. The vast majority are in between.

[Township75]

4. It wasn't such a bad thing yesterday when we might have had some thing new to pin on the tea party,

White conservatives and angry right wing rhetoric, but now that the attackers are Muslim we all need to slow down and not blame a group.

I'm with you on not blaming a group, I just wish others here could have held off on the blame orgasm because it doesn't begin and end with only the originally selected groups...it's a wild fire that spreads as everyone throws gasoline on the fire.

[The2ndWheel]

5. Which is different from what?

Every murder falls into some stereotype. None of them ever help improve perceptions. Young black male shoots another young black male, perceptions don't improve. Angry white guy shoots up whatever or whoever, perceptions don't improve. Deeply religious Muslim kills some people, perceptions don't improve.

[bkkyosemite]

6. My concern is that he went to Saudi Arabia

to get the woman he married. Osama's mindset was to kill Americans. Saudi Arabia is doing not so much to aid in getting rid of ISIS....This couple had a baby. Yet they killed dressed in riot gear. He was a devout Muslim, quiet and liked. Seems like a typical American family who they were not. My opinion is that religion originating in the Middle East is being used to indoctrinate those who need to kill the infidels..us....