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I mean we have identical cases here. Instead it's a christian man, cutting off a person's head in the name of Jesus. Except we arrested him, instead of shooting him dead like we do most to most Radical Muslims. He's the definition of Radical Christian and we write him off as "mentally ill". Why don't we give Radical Muslims due process anymore? Have we gotten so used to calling them terrorists that they're automatically a threat with a political agenda the moment they scream ALLAHU AKBAR (God is great), deemed "enemy combatants" and we now can just deny them all their rights?
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He is mentally ill. The article said he has schizophrenia. There's no mention that the other people -- while probably crazy in some sense, which the article acknowledges -- had been diagnosed with mental illnesses. He's not the definition of a "Radical Christian." A radical Christian would be someone who does crazy shit mainly because of their beliefs in Christianity. This guy was a schizophrenic. If a care bear told him to kill that doesn't mean he's a care bear radical; it means he's still a schizophrenic. There's a difference between committing crimes based on crazy beliefs and committing crimes because voices told you to.