Police think the killing of David Amess may have had an Islamist motivation. We need to talk about this.
The discussion about the horrific slaying of Tory MP David Amess is set to change. Possibly radically. The police’s decision to treat his murder as a potential terrorist incident, with an Islamist motivation, is likely to shake up how the media elites in particular talk about it. Out will go any implacable political anger and the insistence that we search for the cultural and intellectual influences behind this barbaric act. In their place we’ll see demands for calm. Don’t feel too much fury, we’ll be told. Don’t extrapolate. Don’t blame it on any one faith or ideology. Don’t be Islamophobic. The liberal media will likely stop stirring up passionate feeling about this heinous crime, and instead seek to suppress such emotion.
The MSM is already hard at work shaping the narrative by providing us a heart rending account of the trauma suffered by the blood thirsty Islamist’s poor old Daddy and conflating this latest Muslim terror attack with the displays of righteous disgust for Trudeau during the election campaign.
