Manchester massacre results in media madness as lefties ignore role of Islam

Here we go again. Women’s website Mamamia, yesterday:

We know who the Manchester suicide bomber is. Mamamia will not be naming him.

More heads in the sand … Barrister and refugee activist Julian Burnside on Twitter, yesterday:

The attack is appalling no matter what the motives. We need to worry about extremists of all kinds: Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, whatever.

American physicist Lawrence Krauss on ABC’s Q&A, Monday:

You’re more likely to be killed by your refrigerator than terrorism.

How many people have to die? London’s The Times online, yesterday:

The suicide bomber who murdered 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester had recently returned from Libya, it emerged last night as Britain was put on alert for another imminent attack

But they don’t want to know. Mamamia, yesterday:

This story is not his. We don’t want to know the name of the man who stood in the middle of a crowd full of kids and exploded a bomb. We do not care about his motivation. We don’t care about his cause. There is nothing worth knowing about why a person would do that.

We need to know about these killers so we can stop them. The Times, continued:

Police and intelligence agencies are trying to establish whether Salman Abedi received terrorist training at a jihadist camp in the North African country where (Islamic State) and al-Qa’ida have allied to fight government forces.

Oh yeah, the only weapon we need against Islamist terror is love. Mamamia, continued:

Hate will not trump love. Terror will not blacken our lives.

Love is the answer? Are we going to replace ASIO and MI5 with the Care Bears? Care Bears theme song, 1985:

I wanna be a Care Bear / And fill the world with love.

We could admit there’s a particular problem in the Islamic community. The Australian’s Greg Sher­idan on The Drum, ABC News, Tuesday:

British society is just as difficult to penetrate for a Hindu migrant or Chinese migrant or somebody else and they don’t resort to this. The demographic breakdown of people who have conducted terrorist attacks in Britain includes many, many people who had tertiary education and who were relatively affluent and successful.

But you mustn’t mention the M-word. The Drum’s host John Barron, Tuesday:

All right. Again, of course we don’t know who was responsible for this or their motivations on that.

The ABC does have a penchant for shutting down debate on Islamic extremism. Chris Kenny’s column for The Australianonline, yesterday:

Across all its platforms the national broadcaster is wont to echo the jihad denialism of the green left … This attitude pollutes our public debate, stif­ling political action and perpetuating the grievances of extremists that tend to paint murderous acts as responses to Western foreign policy, social isolation or so-called Islamophobia.

OK, let’s go back to some common sense from Sheridan. The Drum, Tuesday:

The idea that it is all society’s fault is madness. And it dehumanises terrorists because it takes away their actual agency and moral choice.