To the folks who are vehemently denying this person was a Christian, I would urge you to consider this: If a person with a muslim name commits an act of terrorism, he is immediately labelled an «Islamic» terrorist, no
questions asked, even though the Quran clearly states that a person who kills an innocent is like he / she has murdered then
whole of
humanity (the Quran mentions this in reference to murder of ANY innocent person, irrespective of the victims belief): To quote from the Quran: «On that account We ordained for the Children of Isra`il that 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 humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be
as if he saved the
whole humanity.
Contemporary
humanity faces, in such issues, the
question of whether we,
as a species, have enough access to universalistic principles not only to confront and constrain recalcitrant abusers of the cosmos and the neighbor, but to guide and shape the
whole of what appears to be an emerging, single cosmopolitan civilization — although it is likely to be the most diverse and culturally pluralistic civilization that ever existed.