Terrorist No One Will Talk About

Imagine if a United States congressman had been murdered in the January 6 protests. I know it’s absurd; it wasn’t that kind of crowd, but bear with me. Fox News would be shut down, Donald Trump would probably have been designated a terrorist, and anyone who ever said anything vaguely right wing on social media would be under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Here in the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament was stabbed to death in broad daylight while meeting with his constituents on October 15. Ali Harbi tabbed Sir David Amess 17 times in what news reports called a “frenzied attack.”

The attack has, rightly, generated a lot of outrage and calls for action. But almost no one is talking about the “ideology” behind the attack. The U.S. is heading in a similar direction, where the mainstream media is covering up what might have been a failed terrorist attack on a U.S. airliner. The contrast with January 6 couldn’t be starker.

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