Do you agree with this Sikh ex-British Army officer who says the Woolwich attacks are political and religious?

Of course there's a story beyond just "Muslims killing people.". The guy who committed the murder even said himself that politics had played a role in what he was doing when the lady who went to help the dead soldier started talking to him.

Did you know that a few days before a 75 year old Muslim man had been stabbed to death on the streets in Birmingham by a random scumbag simply because he was a Muslim.

What's the bloody difference!?!?

Not aiming that at you. It's just frustrating to see this extreme anti Islam sentiment some people harbour. I don't see why people blame those who are not culpable in a crime just because they share a religion.

For me the issue mainly is that in politics, religion is often used to differ soldiers from the 'enemy' and to justify the wishes of parliaments all over the world, which is such a shame and on that level I suppose this guy is right. We need to acknowledge the enforced link between the two, be sensitive towards it and then work on separating the two so people of one faith or race aren't tarred with the same brush and made to be afraid of.

I agree the perpetrators of the attack were known to be linked to terrorism and are Muslims they also state the attack was because British soldiers killed Muslims in other lands. Can not get a lot more religious and political extremist than this can you?

I agree we should be more honest and I was disgusted to see Cameron trotting out the PC line that this had nothing to do with Islam. I think the two Jihad savages involved would strongly disagree.

Politicians and Muslims in the UK have much in common. You can't believe a word they say.

I disagree that Muslim lunacy is the result of our involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Its the result of the Koran.

in all threat on account which you dared to sell the thought terrorism has something to do with politics or politicians. they could be secure in any respect cases. Boris Johnson could desire to not often shop a rapidly face the former day while he stated that the Woolwich attack had not something to do with Islam or politics. truly the freedoms that our flesh pressers deliver young women folk and adult males human beings to their deaths of their distant places wars to guard at the instant are not worth a bag of sh*te. not anymore.

quran 5:32:

if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land

"He does not say Islam is to blame."

That's a shame, because blame should be put squarely on muslim shoulders. That's where it belongs.

Trust me, Soldiers WILL be going out armed from now on. And when they kill these filthy cockroaches who attack them, they'll be given a medal.

the sikhs always take their own side. politically and religiously.

The problem is not the media, or Christianity or Islam...the problem is ALL religions.