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The Manchester Arena bomber’s former head teacher has told an inquiry there was no sign of his extremism while he was at school.

Twenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the venue’s foyer on 22 May 2017.

Abedi studied at Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester for about 18 months between 2009 and 2011.

The public inquiry into the attack heard he was “aggressive and rude” to teachers and was suspended from school.

Detectives are investigating whether the death of a mother at a house in Liverpool may have been due to ‘cultural reasons’.

Malak Adabzadeh, 47, also known as Katy, was found dead at an address in Stoneycroft shortly before 5pm on Thursday, according to Merseyside Police.

Police said Ms Adabzadeh had been living in Stoneycroft but was originally from Iran.

That’s some “culture” you got there.

London, where imams are free to foment holy war against the West and MPs are killed in churches, is being strangled by Islamism.

“Officials of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, got in touch with those who had to host Eric Zemmour to dissuade them.” Thus The Spectator tells how the journalist and probable candidate for the French presidential elections of 2022 (who lives under strict police protection and is threatened with beheading) did not find a room in London for his conference.
When asked directly if Khan was involved, a spokesman for the mayor said: “No one who wants to divide our communities or incite hatred of people because of the color of their skin or the god they worship is welcome in our city”. A spokesperson for Zemmour replied: “Surprising that in a city where calls for jihad are allowed on the streets. Bizarre in the country of free speech.”

The term ‘Islamophobia’ is too often used to shield radical Islamists from criticism.

Under the Prevent programme, local authority staff and other professionals such as doctors, teachers and social workers have a duty to flag concerns about an individual being radicalised or drawn into a terrorism.

Ian Acheson, a former prison governor and senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, today suggested research was needed about what was driving referrals and why they were ‘out of kilter’.

He told MailOnline: ‘Nobody can dispute these statistics as a matter of fact. Nor is it sensible to ignore extreme right wing ideology as a driver of violent extremism.

‘But we should also be asking about what is driving these referrals and why they are so out of kilter with the clear and present danger of Islamist extremism which in terms of lethality and potential dwarfs extreme right wing ones.’

The Church of England has come under scrutiny in the wake of the Liverpool terror attack after it has emerged that the bomber had converted from Islam to Christianity in an apparent attempt to help him claim asylum in the UK.

On Tuesday, it was revealed that Emad Al Swealmeen, who died in a blast outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, was a failed asylum seeker who converted to Christianity at the Liverpool Cathedral.

“Conversions” have long been a ruse.

LONDON (AP) — The suspect who was killed in a Liverpool taxi explosion spent at least six months buying components for a bomb and appears to have acted alone, British police said Wednesday.

Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when a blast ripped through the cab in which he was a passenger as it pulled up outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday morning. The taxi driver was injured.

Russ Jackson, the head of counterterrorism policing for northwest England, said Al Swealmeen had rented a property in the city in April and been making “relevant purchases” for a device at least since then.