It has been more than a week since a British lawmaker was stabbed to death at Belfairs Methodist Church in Essex during one of his regular meetings with constituents.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service last week announced that a 25-year-old UK national of Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, had been charged with murdering Conservative MP Sir David Amess.
The British and global media continue to cover the repercussions of the crime, the attacker’s background and any possible motives. They present the opinions of security officials and experts on how to combat Islamist extremism and how to address such attacks without fear of being accused of being anti-Islam or a promoter of Islamophobia.
Extremist Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, who in 2016 was sentenced to prison for more than five years for preaching in support of Daesh, attributed Amess’ assassination to his support for the state of Israel. “Many people do believe that it (Israel) is a terrorist state, and who would possibly be a friend of Israel after you see the carnage that they carried out against Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and continue to do with the appropriation of properties?” Choudary told the Daily Mail.
The deadliest year for Islamist terrorist attacks in England was 2017, when about 40 people died in three separate incidents in London and Manchester. In France, more than 300 people have lost their lives in radical Islamist attacks since 2012. Such recurrent atrocities make it logical to analyze the radical Islamist ideology and prevent it from infiltrating the Western world without infringing on civil liberties, which is the core of the concept of a democracy.
Meanwhile, in the US, the major news networks all moved on at the end of the news cycle, as if Islamist extremism had no presence on American soil and that Europe in general and Britain in particular have to deal with their own local security scares.
Nowadays, when a person discusses the danger of radical Islamism and how Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, have been infiltrating the US, they are hit with a ready-made accusation of being an Islamophobe — putting all American Muslims in one category and successfully hijacking the voices of the moderate Muslims in the country.
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