Well that doesn’t make him a devout Muslim. Not unless all devout Muslims are on this terrorist watch list.
His criminality went much further back than a year, most of his life in fact, apparently.
He was in regular contact with Abu Walaa, a radical cleric described as Germany’s number one ISIS recruiter. He was in contact with ISIS. Not the type of people you knock about with if you just have a passing interest in religion.
Muslim terrorists pose a threat to our society, so too do bigots who choose to demonise a religion with their divisive and predictable knee-jerk reactions.
People like jambalaya, Tom_W and Nigel Farage are part of the problem, not the solution.
We are discussing a mass murder in the name of religion and you are worried about bigotry. The flavour of Islam which Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and several decades exporting all over the world is true bigotry.
One of the most dangerous motifs playing out here is people deliberately trying to muddy the waters, even going so far as to declare a ISIS attack as “nothing to do with Islam”. Of course, there are degrees to this, but when the PC brigade tie themselves in knots trying to explain how un islamic islamic murderers are they drive moderates to the right and people on the right to the far right. And of course all the while calling anyone who disagrees with them racists, bigots, islamophobes, xenophobes etc.
We can quite easily talk about white/christian/european born murderers/terrorists without demonising an entire religion/culture/people, there is no reason to behave any differently towards people who happen to be Muslim.
No, you can’t actually. Try discussing brexit or Trump without Nazism, racism, etc etc etc.
