My brother was a missionary in Kenya about 30 years ago - he was there for about 15 years and taught at a mission school teaching prospective clergy. He would generally be categorised as an “evangelical” in his outlook. He was there by invitation of the local church - I wouldn’t be surprised if the lady who was murdered was also invited there by the local church in Timbuktu.

One thing that you should remember is that almost all religions prosthelytise - they aim to convert people to their religion - this is certainly true of Christianity and Islam. Essentially there are common roots to Christianity, Judaism and Islam -for instance Islam recognises Jesus as a prophet.

For personal reasons I am not religious - I follow no religion, but I tend to adhere to what could be loosely described as a Christian way of life - as I have 4 brothers two of which are ordained and the other two who are lay preachers there is a certain inevitability to that.

To answer the original question I could not do what she did but I would hardly call my brother a religious radical - there really are some out there who are utter nut jobs, totally intolerant of other religions but these tend to be weeded out by the missionary societies as being unsuitable missionary material.

I would concur that fundamentalists are a concern. This is not restricted to religion as there are those that could be described as gun rights fundamentalists, animal rights fundamentalists, political fundamentalists, abortion fundamentalists etc - to be intolerant of the views and beliefs of others is, IMHO, anathema in a modern society - people need to stop forcing their opinion on others. And anyone disagreeing with me on that I will see outside .

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