That is how we normally report the people who die by knifing in London each year, usually by those who are enraged or mentally deranged. Yet more are run down by cars. This is sad but not unusual. Some of those involved are Muslims. Of course it seems different when the attack is on an iconic site in central London, but that is merely how it seems.
What made Wednesday different was its instant subjection to an avalanche of supposition and speculation. This was a choice made by the media and political community, a choice to direct the view of a terrible incident entirely in one direction, even when nothing was known of its cause. Because it looked like a terrorist incident – albeit ham-fisted – and it was not initially known if it was a decoy, it was assumed to be such.
Het moge duidelijk zijn dat zo'n natuurlijk niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoofd is, maar helaas pakken linkse Nederlandse journalisten zijn talking points op en gaan ze ermee aan de haal:
Die Groenhuijsen wordt met de dag gekker. Toen hij nog in Amerika woonde kon ik zijn bijdragen nog wel enigszins waarderen, maar tegenwoordig is hij echt helemaal van het padje. En dat mag zich dan nog 'journalist,' 'schrijver' en 'dagspreker' noemen ook.
