Straight from Britain’s most popular paper…
The intrepid DOUGLAS MURRAY speaks out on islamic terrorism in today’s Sun. BBC, take note.
“Why are we so paralysed into NOT talking about Islamist terrorism?”
“It has not even been a week since the brutal slaughter of Sir David Amess. The frenzied stabbing to death of another of our MPs should have shocked our whole political system.
And yet in the days since his murder something very strange has happened.
To listen to the speeches from Amess’s colleagues in Parliament this week you’d have thought he died of natural causes. Sad as they were, MPs distracted themselves with talk about “online harm”.
Questioned on the BBC at the weekend, Home Secretary Priti Patel ended up talking about online anonymity.
None of which appears to have had anything to do with Sir David’s murder.
The suspect is a 25-year-old Muslim of Somali origin.
Ali Harbi Ali apparently has a history of Islamic extremism, having even been referred to the Government’s Prevent counter-extremism programme seven years ago.
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So why are no MPs or other leaders in our national life talking about this? Why are they waffling on about online abuse of MPs when one of their colleagues has been murdered?
If the killer had been a far-right maniac, like the man who murdered MP Jo Cox in 2016, then MPs would have had no problem talking about the fact. Indeed back then, before the Brexit referendum, it sometimes seemed as though the whole Brexit movement was being blamed for “radicalising” Cox’s killer.
Though no such link existed it didn’t stop prominent politicians and others smearing half the country by association. So why is no one even talking about the possible causes of Sir David Amess’s murder?
The reason is because when faced with a possible murder in the name of Islamic fundamentalism, this country still struggles to find any way to respond to it. Look at the situation four years ago when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated himself at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena.
Twenty-two people were killed that night, most of them young, and many dozens more appallingly injured.
Had the attacker been driven by any other ideology the nation would have tried to work out what drove the bomber to do it, who his network was and who his influences were.
But from the first moments after the Manchester attack things went in a different direction. People seemed uninterested in the details about the mosque Abedi had attended. They never asked why his family were given asylum in the UK.
His brother even skipped the country this week before having to answer questions before the official inquiry.
All the time we were told one thing above all. In the words of the Oasis song claimed as the official response to the slaughter of 22 people, “Don’t look back in anger.”
But why not? Why the hell shouldn’t there be anger when children leave a pop concert in body bags? Because the attacker was an Islamist. And whenever it is an Islamist different rules apply. It was the same in June 2017 when three Islamists rampaged across London Bridge and Borough Market, slaughtering pedestrians as they went.
“This is for Allah” screamed one of the attackers as he slashed at a woman’s throat. What happened in the days after that? The then Prime Minister, Theresa May, alongside Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and others wanted to talk about anything other than Islamic extremism.
Indeed, within hours, the politicians all started talking about the responsibility of tech companies to crack down on online radicalisation. There certainly is some responsibility that the tech companies need to accept. But there was no evidence that any of the London Bridge attackers were radicalised online.
At least two of them should never have even been in this country. And they were hardly hiding online. One of them had appeared a year before on a Channel 4 documentary called The Jihadi Next Door.
It is always the same in this country. There are forms of extremism that we are happy to call out and tackle.
But even after all these years there is one that just terrifies most of our politicians and media.
That is Islamic extremism.
Security professionals, government ministers and TV stars all fear what will happen if they correctly call out these people. And so they dodge the subject.
They do it even when one of their colleagues is murdered.
A pattern keeps repeating itself. A pattern of cowardly avoidance and the increasing grip of wokeism on all areas of public life.
As a new report from think tank the Henry Jackson Society put it this week: “It is vital that the UK is not paralysed by political correctness and identity politics when it comes to holding hard-headed discussions on the prevailing threat of Islamist extremism.”
Quite. Unless we shake that off, these attacks will keep coming.
Because to defeat an enemy you first have to correctly identify it. In Britain that still seems light years away.”
www.thesun.co.uk/news/16486129/why-are-we-paralysed-into-not-talking-about-terrorism/
