Gosh, that must hurt!

Why would anyone want to do this to themselves? I can only assume at this stage that it's got something to do with wanting to go to paradise with 72 virgins awaiting their arrival with great anticipation.

But for a man who has trained as a doctor and spent years of his life learning how to diagnose and treat disease and injury in fellow humans it is incredible that he should contemplate causing such potential death and destruction. What sort of belief system would engender such a course of action? He's not a disadvantaged youth in a high unemployment area that has been "turned" by some evil imam at the local mosque into a homicidal maniac. So what has made him what he is?

I think he, and his friends, are simply evil and will only be stopped if we confront them wherever they are or whatever they do. They cannot be allowed to intimidate the rest of us - ever! This might mean we have to accept some (temporary and intermittent) erosion of our hard fought liberties but this does not mean we have to have ID cards! Ever!