The BBC graciously admits there might be an Islamic angle to the murder of a priest in France today…
President Francois Hollande said the men claimed to be from so-called Islamic State (IS).
Speaking in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, he said the attackers had committed a “cowardly assassination” and France would fight IS “by all means”.
Fraank Gardner isn’t 100% convinced…
The selection of a church by the attackers, whatever their motives turn out to be, crosses a new red line in the grim history of recent attacks on continental Europe.
I’m sure he has a psychiatrist on standby to talk us through the issues…on hold just now because ‘There was no immediate word on the identity of the hostage-takers.’
Certain to find they are poor lads from a Muslim ghetto abandoned by the French state, alienated and angry at the way Muslims are treated….I could get a job as a BBC journo..no?
However it can’t be long before the equivocations start….the BBC [Frankie boy] are already looking to point the finger of blame…
News that one of the attackers was on the French government’s terror watch-list, known as the S list, will prompt many to question its purpose if he can remain at large to carry a knife into a church.
Always looking for a new angle on a story…except the obvious one.
“there might be an Islamic angle to the murder of a priest in France” – WHAT? It wasn’t a shaving accident as early reports led me to believe??