It is Christian because Jesus not only acknowledged the 10 commandments but also explained them and expanded each of them. Christ corrected all flaws within the Old Testament that matter.

In Maltese we say, “Il-qattusa ghaggelija ghamlet friegh ghomja”.

I really find it hard to believe that you really believe this is simple, straightforward criminal matter. This is much more than that.

And no, I think you’re wrong, I do not think that prisons are full of people who would go on a commando-style mission and kill specific 12+ targets in cold blood whose only ‘fault’ was to publish images of Mohammed.

I think your claim is simply and thankfully outrageous.

[Daphne – Look, if you have a cause to push in this matter, this is really not the place to do it. You are deliberately misunderstanding or misinterpreting my words. I did not say this is a straightforward criminal matter (though that is exactly what it is in terms of the law). I said that this has nothing to do with religion – that many men are extremely problematic between 17 and their early 30s, that they look for a cause and a sense of belonging and for an outlet for their violence, and that this could be anything depending on their position in life and where they live. Why do you think all these European young men are ‘converting’ to Islam and flying to what, to them, is a strange and dangerous part of the world to join Islamic State? Do you think they actually give a damn about religion? No. It’s like joining some Foreign Legion or going off to fight the natives and conquer South America. It’s like working for the Kray Twins or joining Mao’s Red Guards.]

God is not love, but your idea of God is love.

God is just a part of religion, and religion is a large group of people who have the same philosophy/beliefs.

Religion is just a tool, and like every other tool, it could be used for good or it can be used for great evil, just as we are witnessing again in these days.

According to the old testament, the greatest commandment is that you can have other gods, but as long as they do not come before the great YHWH.

So all your logic is just according to your interpretation. You do not even follow Roman Catholic Church which dismiss the 10 and focus on only two newer simpler ones.

It also should remind everyone about the multitude and variety of acts committed agianst this blog and the several attempts to incite action by third parties by certain statements in the media.

I would also like to think that it is ‘they’ who do such things and not ‘us’ but I think that train of thought is dangerous because we need to take on board issues such as Jihad Jane and others like her.

‘They’ would be easier to identify and easier to ‘blame’ but looking at it in that way although more comforting is too simplistic. How, why and by whom people are turned (radicalized) is the pertinent question the focus by the lay communities.

I wonder which part of liberté, égalité, fraternité, they didn’t quite grasp.

[Daphne – Probably the same bits you have trouble grasping when you identify three men who would have been working for a drug cartel or criminal gang elsewhere as representatives of Islam. Men that age can be massively problematic. Prisons are full of them. All they need is a cause and an excuse for violence.]

How did we classify ourselves back then in the” golden years” when the Times of Malta building was ransacked and gutted by fire set by Labour hooligans?

That commandment is in the Torah. Moses was Hebrew, not Christian.