These sort of horrific tragedies are seemingly part of a continuing domino effect. Done under the reasoning of a "just war", in the radical person's mind, against the enemies of a radical minded group, who believe they are fighting a war as true servants of their god, which is a gross misinterpretation of their scripture. Their interpretation of scripture has lead us into this spiral of death and despair. Where the average Muslim is peaceful and loving, since they do not see a valid reason, under today's conditions, for resorting to violence and declaring war, these radicals do and have.
While we are used to seeing war among nations, soldiers against soldiers, the minds of the radical one sees the citizens of a nation as fair game, no matter the age or sex, to fight back against what nations they feel have wronged them as a group, again, even purposely targeting their civilians. How do you combat that sort of dangerous ideological thinking that can then lead to such terrible acts done against humanity?
Fundamentally, I don't think you can answer that question once a seed like this has been planted. When the laws that govern war are not being followed, we see mass chaos like this. This is a war being fought by many nations against a group of people that feel justified by scripture to carry out attacks against all people of nations who oppose them or they feel have wronged them. Pretty safe to say, that is every last one of us posting in this thread, and your families and groups of friends. That sort of hatred and evil is completely heartbreaking. The saddest realization is there may be no end in sight now that this sort of warfare is part of a radical religious mindset. Religion can be one of the deadliest pretexts to war and hardest to extinguish.
