It is quite possible that the attack in the German city of Heidelburg where an individual drove a rented car into the front of a bakery, killing one and injuring others, was caused by a person suffering from mental illness. However, it’s also equally possible that this could be an act of Jihad by one of the Islamic savages that the German leader Chancellor Angela Merkel invited into her country, or a convert to Islam. It’s difficult at this stage to get a definitive answer on the cause but people will rightly be suspicious that it was an act of Jihad. This is because some of the statements made by the German police and media have ominous similarities with other cases which have turned out to be jihad, but have initially been ascribed to ‘mental illness’ or some other, non Jihad, reason.

Putting together the various press reports, from Fox News, Breitbart, the Daily Mail and the BBC paints a picture of a policing and media establishment in Germany desperately trying to quash speculation that this could be a Jihad attack. The excuses made seem very similar to that made after other outrages that were later attributed to Jihad. Of course, the attack may truly have ‘nothing to do with Islam’ but the behaviour of the German police and the German media do nothing to stop people questioning their honesty about the motivations behind the attack.

The sort of phrases that the German policing and media establishment have used have a weary familiarity with the phrases that have been used following other attacks that have indeed turned out to be jihadi attacks. Phrases such as ‘mentally ill’, ‘German’, ‘lone individual’ and ‘it doesn’t look like a terrorist motive at this time’. The use of these phrases by the media and the police in previous cases where jihad has later been admitted, do not encourage either trust or confidence in these entities.

Many of us, in a variety of different nations, including Germany, are not getting either the government or the police or the press that we deserve. We have too often been lied to, especially about the threat posed by the violent and aggressive ideology of Islam and that it is these lies that is causing the growth of cynicism. My message to the politicians, the policing authorities and the press of European nations is that we deserve much more honesty than we are seeing from you all at present. If these entities and media publications wish to be trusted then they need to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Islam and not try to fob us of with lies. I’ve no wish to see the growth of corrosive cynicism as it damages societies but this cynicism can only be tackled by politicians putting their hands up to their mistakes in welcoming Islam into our societies, by the police giving us all the information that they are able to and by the press being considerably more honest than they appear to be at present.