You can call me a bigot, you can call me an islamophobe, you can call me a racist, you can call me whatever you want, i dont care, but i will tell u one thing - until islam has a massive reformation these attacks will not only continue, but will get worse and worse. Anyone who says this has nothing to do with islam is either an islamic apologist, or is totally and absolutely DUMB.
If you think Islam needs a Reformation then you clearly don't understand the underlying principles of Islam and it's teachings.
Most of Islamaphobes spit out reformation with no clue about Islam.
I can pull out the Quran and point out at least 200 verses that clearly state that this is wrong. Do you even have a Quran?
“O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you.” (Holy Quran: 2,208)
“There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned.” (Holy Quran: 2,256)
“God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just.” (Surat al-Mumtahana, 8)
“We have appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had God willed, He would have made you a single community, but He wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to God and He will inform you regarding the things about which you differed.” (Surat al-Ma’ida, 48)
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money for love of Him, on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives; and who observes Prayer and pays the Zakat; and those who fulfill their promise when they have made one, and the patient in poverty and afflictions and the steadfast in time of war; it is these who have proved truthful and it is these who are the God-fearing. (Al Quran 2:178)
Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you may take heed. (Al Quran 16:91)
The reward of goodness is nothing but goodness. (Al Quran 55:61)
Indeed, Allah is with those who are righteous and those who do good. (Al Quran 16:129)
O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear Allah, in Whose name you appeal to one another, and be mindful of your duty to Allah, particularly respecting ties of relationship. Verily, Allah watches over you. (Al Quran 4:2)
Thus indeed do We reward those who do good. (Al Quran 37:132)
Say, ‘Come, I will rehearse to you what your Lord has forbidden: that you associate not anything as partner with Him and that you do good to parents, and that you kill not your children for fear of poverty — it is We Who provide for you and for them — and that you approach not foul deeds, whether open or secret; and that you kill not the life which Allah has made sacred, save by right. That is what He has enjoined upon you, that you may understand. (Al Quran 6:152)
No wonder then that the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) so earnestly used to entreat his Lord in his daily prayer: "O God, you are the original source of Peace; from You is all Peace, and to You returns all Peace. So, make us live with Peace; and let us enter paradise: the House of Peace. Blessed be You, our Lord, to whom belongs all Majesty and Honour!"
I have a lot more, Just ask and you will receive.
Is there a single thing in any of these verses that need to be reformed? Besides using a tragedy to push a political and religious agenda is disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Anyway may the victims rest in peace.
You want an actual solution? Than don't blame Islam.
Besides wasn't the owner warned of such a attack? Why didn't he beef up security?