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Welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name's Tim Nash. I'm Dave Ward. This is kind of a little occasional

thing that we throw in from time to time. And rather than an interview, we ask someone to send

in their reflection on that current event to help us think it through. How occasional are these?

I don't know. It's the fourth one?

Third or fourth.

Yeah, I think so.

Because we were hoping to try and do once a month, weren't we?

That was never going to happen.

Yeah.

So, as I'm sure everyone's aware, over the last few days,

we've seen another Islamic state-inspired atrocity,

sort of a massacre at a beach resort in Tunisia.

Yeah, horrible.

Yeah, really horrible.

And I think at the moment they're saying 38 people were killed, 30 of whom were Brits.

Yeah.

So I think that makes it the worst terrorist attack on Britain since the attacks in London, doesn't it?

Yeah, I guess. I mean, certainly obviously it's the most recent, isn't it?

And it's kind of woken it all back up again.

Yeah.

So it raises that question again of, is Islam an inherently violent religion?

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