"It isn’t political terrorism, likely, but certainly it was a terroristic act of killing."
Well. I may be wrong about this but my definition of terrorism is violent acts done to bring about desired consequences in their after-effects. The terror is not that of the victims (although certainly they do experience it) but of society afterwards. If, say, the co-pilot held a revenge-filled grievance against Germanwings (or Germany in general) and wanted to keep thousands of future passengers away in fear, which would make the airline and/or the national economy suffer, then his action was terrorism. So you are correct, religion has nothing to do with it. But unless he had an agenda related to the aftermath of this act, I say it's not terrorism, simply terror.
Something mentioned on German radio recently, to the question "why Dresden specifically?". It seems that Dresden is one of the most conservative cities in the country. Much more so than it's neighbor Leipzig, which is why you see completely different reactions from them even though they are both formerly communist.
"It isn’t political terrorism, likely, but certainly it was a terroristic act of killing."
Well. I may be wrong about this but my definition of terrorism is violent acts done to bring about desired consequences in their after-effects. The terror is not that of the victims (although certainly they do experience it) but of society afterwards. If, say, the co-pilot held a revenge-filled grievance against Germanwings (or Germany in general) and wanted to keep thousands of future passengers away in fear, which would make the airline and/or the national economy suffer, then his action was terrorism. So you are correct, religion has nothing to do with it. But unless he had an agenda related to the aftermath of this act, I say it's not terrorism, simply terror.
Something mentioned on German radio recently, to the question "why Dresden specifically?". It seems that Dresden is one of the most conservative cities in the country. Much more so than it's neighbor Leipzig, which is why you see completely different reactions from them even though they are both formerly communist.