There was a terrible stabbing at Regent’s Park mosque yesterday and some on the Left tried to claim it as a ‘far right attack’. But it was nothing of the sort. It turns out that the stabbing, something I deplore completely, was not done by one of the almost mythical ‘far right terrorists’ that the government keeps warning us about, but appears to have been committed by a fellow Muslim. It was, probably to the embarrassment of those who gobbed off before all the facts were in, a ‘blue on blue’ incident.
According to various press reports the assailant was described as a ‘white male’ possibly ‘eastern European’ and had been attending the mosque regularly. This raises the prospect that this assailant may have been yet another mentally impalanced convert to Islam, although this time one who had chosen to go mad with a knife in a mosque rather than in a railway station or a public area of central London or a random street.
We will of course have to wait until this man comes before the courts to find out exactly what has motivated him although there is the possibility that like last year’s Birmingham mosque attacker, another Muslim, he will be sectioned under the Mental Health Act until when or if he is fit to be tried. It’s quite possible that this attack was some form of internal dispute between the assailant and the mosque that turned deadly or it could be that he was motivated by much more extreme Muslims to attack a mosque that was not to their liking? However as I said earlier, we will not know for sure until the court case is completed.
What this case does not look like, at least at this stage, is any sort of ‘far right’ terrorism and it’s interesting that the police are not ascribing any terror motive to the attack, something they would be very quick to do if it was a violent anti Muslim attack. It’s extremely lucky that this attack didn’t cause any fatalities and the victim of the attack is I believe on the mend. The attack has of course, propelled various grievance mongers out of the woodwork calling for more funding and effort to be put into mosque security but I fail to see how these policies would guard against a random disturbed Muslim attacking another Muslim.
This is not the beginning of a ‘pogrom’ that the increasingly hysterical Left seems to be looking for in order to justify their often false claims of ‘rampant Islamophobia’, it’s something else. At the end of the day Britain is remarkably tolerant, even towards those who follow ideologies that are intrinsically bad, because we know that there is often a big difference between an ideology and those who follow it. You would think wouldn’t you that with all the problems that have been brought to these shores by Islam that there would be a violent reaction to it, but there has been remarkably and pleasingly little of that. I put that restraint down to the character of the average Briton who can tell the difference between the guilty and the innocent and between the harmless Muslim individual and the jihadi.
