the religion of islam - like all other religions - is a violent system of hetero-patriarchal dominance that needs to be resisted at every opportunity, and ultimately abolished; it belongs in the dung heap of history, along with all of the other failed totalitarian attempts at tyrannical social control.

i do not and will never stand with muslims, and insist that fearing them is not merely rational but intellectually necessary.

that said, killing people at a mosque - and they are not innocent if they are attending a religious service - is a terrible way to address the violence of religious intolerance, as it merely sinks the shooter to their own level of depravity. we must be better than them, not become them.

i will always support any rational or effective tactic to annihilate religion; this isn't one of them.