Maybe a better question , is why do radical Muslim cultures want to kill ALL Jews/Christians ? believing in the name of Alaha that killing of these people are justified (kids/women ect.) Religon beliefs and acts of violance tied togeather ...Read your history books ,religious wars /battles have been going on for ever and probably always will, only the stakes today are MUCH bigger , Believe me this isn't the ONLY news of the day ..They want the the attention , thier getting it