This picture, snapped in the aftermath of today’s Islamic terror attack in London, certainly speaks volumes about our present-day, east-west culture clash. While Europe is quite decidedly post-Christian at this point, there still remains at least a residual strain of Christianity in most Westerners. I believe a majority would still reach out to help a fellow injured human being lying in the street. Not so most members of the Religion of Peace ~
 

 
Quite the contrary, Islam is the faith that directs it adherents to “slay the infidel wherever you find him.” Just like the as-yet unnamed murderer – ‘middle-aged and Asian’– did today.
[Update 3-24-17: Homegrown terrorist ~ Adrian Elms – or Khalid Masood, the Islamic name he adopted – was known to the authorities as a vicious thug whose ‘violent extremism’ had brought him to the attention of MI5. Yet at some point a decision was taken that he was no longer considered a threat. Oops.]

Muslims seem to have no concept of the Golden Rule (a maxim not exclusive to Christianity by the way); “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7:12
 
I don’t know about you, but frankly I’d rather live among people who still exhibit traces of their Christian heritage, than those who callously pass by, self-absorbed, seemingly without a thought for a fellow suffering soul.

In the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the “Good Samaritan” is introduced by a question, known as the Great Commandment:

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
 
He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
 
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, [Deuteronomy 6:5]; and your neighbour as yourself [Leviticus 19:18].”
 
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbour?”
 

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
 
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?”

 
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.”
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
 

Luke 10:25-37

You search in vain for a similar directive in the Quran… This lack of compassion is certainly not conducive to “coexistence.”