The first news item I read this morning on Google news was that a man in some vacation resort (sorry, my reiterating of the details is going to be sketchy) randomly attacked a 62 year old British woman in a store and cut her head off.

It said that one of the things he said was "God is on earth" and that the head was his prize or reward.  He was also described to have been in psychiatric 'care' prior to this horrific crime.

My H just mentioned the other day another news story where a man beheaded his "girlfriend" in some public place. I remember another story about a girl being beheaded in a coffee shop by someone she'd just met. There was another report a few years ago of a man beheading someone (again "randomly") on a bus, I think a tour bus.  Someone he didn't know.

Is it just me, or is something orchestrated and sinister going on here?  My H says that this is in fact "terrorism" and that these people are doing this (on orders?) to sow chaos into our daily lives by creating this sense of unpredictability and fear that these type of things can happen anytime, anywhere and for no "reason."

The news reports are very careful not to mention that these individuals are Muslims.  Does anyone else have any observations on this?

I think it's more common than what we care to admit. If you were to watch the local news (at least in my area) you will hear about some bizarre murder every so often.

As far as beheadings being orchestrated, I highly doubt that. There are much more efficient ways to induce terror that one WOULD easily employ if it were his goal, and beheading isn't one of them.


Then again.... there is something about a head on a stake that people find gruesome, but I haven't seen anyone do that (yet).

Oh I forgot to say that I don't think they are muslims because converts usually change their names to a muslim name.

The man on the bus was a refugee brought in by a Christian group and they were taking care of him so he may have been a supposedley Christian 'convert' but that's just my speculating.

On a different note though still on the satanic one, I was once praying outside an abortion slaughter house and one of the other men who was praying and counselling was approached by one of the slaughter house staff who said to him, "How dare you pray outside our church!"

 :tv-disturbed: It's a shrine alright, but to think one of it's keepers would admit it outright!  :devil2:

Considering the fact that the Muslims have distinguished themselves as being particularly fond of this type of attack against the "infidel," it stood out to me ...

That's actually what came to my mind when you said that. Thus my reply.

It seems to me that it definitely is satanic, although one could argue that all murders are of the devil.  I think there's something to certain types of murders that have a ritualistic aspect to them which puts them in a different category than murders that are perpetrated using other methods.

In executions by hanging, firing squad, beheading, is any one of those more "ritualistic" than the other?  Certainly they are less "ritualistic" than the gruesome deaths by torture that were inflicted on criminals in earlier times (like the man who attempted to αssαssιnαtҽ Louis XV)

The king, bent on forgiving Damiens, could not avoid a trial for regicide. Tried by the Parlement of Paris, Damiens was executed on the Place de Grève on 28 March 1757, following the horrible procedure applied to regicides: after numerous tortures, Damiens was carried to the Place de Grève in the cold afternoon of that day. There, he was first tortured with red-hot pincers; his hand, holding the knife used in the attempted murder, was burnt using sulphur; molten wax, lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds. Horses were then harnessed to his arms and legs for his dismemberment. Damiens's joints would not break; after some hours, representatives of the Parlement ordered the executioner and his aides to cut Damiens's joints. Damiens was then dismembered, to the applause of the crowd. His trunk, apparently still living, was then burnt at the stake. There was an immense crowd to watch this gruesome spectacle, which nobody had witnessed in 147 years. Balconies in buildings above the Place de Grève were rented to women of the aristocracy for the exorbitant price of 100 livres per balcony (approx. $700 in 2005 US dollars).

Cutting off someone's head may be disturbing to people raised on ketchup stain shootings on tv, but as far as murder goes, it's just another method.

Speaking of gruesome murders.... a couple days ago I saw on the local news (when I was in town) somebody chopped up his friend of 20 years with a chainsaw after shooting him to death.