Every time an event such as this happens, it’s as if they get yet another item to add to an already not-very-long list of “What about…” debate points—like the violent Christianity of the twelfth century, abortion clinic bombers, and one-offs like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik—to deflect attention from a strikingly clear pattern of hundreds of jihadist attacks happening on a daily basis, in multiple countries, in the name of Islam, with the killers citing supporting verses from the Quran and chanting Allahu Akbar at every instance. Instead, they
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