Britain has been sent reeling after its capital city was attacked by armed men who launched an assault that left seven people dead and the country stunned less than a week before the General Election.
Three attackers were shot dead after the van and knife attack at London Bridge and Borough Market, locations less than half-a-mile apart, which injured at least 48 people.
They brought carnage to the streets of the capital, stabbing a police officer and revellers with 12-inch knives, reportedly shouting ‘this is for Allah’.
(London Independent, June 4, 2017)
I fear, as surely as night follows day, it’s only a matter of time before there’s another one there or elsewhere in the West. What’s more, they will continue until such attacks become as commonplace as bombings in Kabul … or shootings in Detroit.
Sadly, we’re witnessing and suffering the unfolding of a new norm. Of course, it is self-evident that Islamists have already turned most Western democracies into veritable police states. I cannot overstate this transformation. But this new norm includes terrorizing bomb scares like the one at public screening of a soccer match in Italy today, which triggered a panic-stricken stampede that reportedly injured over 1,500 people.
Truth be told, though, I’ve already written/warned about this in far too many commentaries. Therefore, I see no point in venting damning outrage and proposing coping strategies anew.
Except that it’s worth noting the saving grace amidst typical overreaction to this attack – highlighted by the media stoking ratings-generating fears and the police mounting their horse-already-out-of-the-barn show of force. That saving grace is the decision by organizers of today’s benefit concert for victims of the Manchester attack to keep calm and carry on. Bravo!
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