Quote Originally Posted by monty_rhodes View Post
I don't see your point at all. The poster's observations and conclusions were perfectly reasonable and valid.
To your great disappointment (shared by the BBC, roly, mike, Kerr and MMM on here) this attack will be found to be the work of a sad loner with no right-wing affiliations but a record of heavy drinking, mental instability and erratic behaviour. Friends, family and neighbours state he had never expressed racist views and got on well with Muslim neighbours UNTIL the recent attacks in London and Manchester.
There are no ramifications, no implications and no lessons to be learnt. Random acts of violence by disturbed individuals are unfortunately a fact of life. The fact that Muslims argue this single act has made them fear for their lives and as on the Today programme demand the government make Islamophobia in all its manifestations a crime is clearly self-serving tripe.
That's a pretty foolish post even by your standards, monty

I'm not disappointed by this being, on the face of it, a lone wolf attack by a disturbed individual. On the contrary, albeit it being a despicable act, I'm relieved, as any sensible person would be, that the attack is not, on the face of it, part of a campaign.

To suggest that there are no lessons to be learned is also wrong. To my mind, I think it should remind us all of the need to be careful to avoid language and attitudes that create an atmosphere in which distributed individuals might feel inspired to act in the way that this bloke did. 'Islamic' terrorism provides plenty of inspiration without adding to it with some of the nonsense that appears on football message boards and elsewhere.

Islamaphobia, just like Christianaphobia, are already arguably offences with some crimes being capable of being committed in a 'religuously aggravated' form and with sentence 'uplifts' being available across the board for religiously aggravated offending