After the murder of Lee Rigby, a British soldier, on the
streets of south London in May 2013, I made a list of some previous acts of
politically-inspired killing that had nothing to do with Islam or any
perverted interpretation of it. Perhaps this is a good time to republish it.
In 1971, Robert Campbell killed 15 people in a bomb attack
on McGurk's bar in Belfast. He was not a Muslim.
In 1984, the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was
shot dead by two of her security guards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. They
weren't Muslims either.
In 1991, a suicide bomber named Thenmozhi Rajaratnam blew
herself up and killed Indira Gandhi's son and heir apparent, Rajiv. She was not Muslim.
In 1994, Baruch Goldstein opened fire in a mosque in Hebron,
in the West Bank, and killed 29 Palestinian worshippers. As you might have
guessed, he wasn't a Muslim.
In 1998, 29 people were killed in a bomb attack in Omagh, in
northern Ireland. Not one of the bombers was Muslim.
No, I haven't forgotten 9/11, or Bali 2002, Madrid
2004, London 2005, or Mumbai 2008.
Nor have I forgotten Anders Breivik (Oslo 2011) or
Adam Lanza (Newtown, Connecticut, 2012).
Murder is murder.
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