‘We’re not preparing to fight this ideology!’ Douglas Murray blasts politicians’ inaction
A BRITISH author claimed the Manchester bombing, which claimed the lives of 22 people, happened because people refuse to believe extremists mean what they say.
By LIZZIE STROMME
Express.co.uk
Wed, May 24, 2017
Speaking to BBC’s Daily Politics, Douglas Murray said the west was failing to learn its lessons and was going in a “strange cycle”.
As Andrew Neil asked “What lessons are we failing to learn?” the author said: “Every imaginable one, we don’t want to listen to what extremists say.
“We don’t want to believe they mean what they say. We still seem to be, even after all these years and this strange cycle, we’re not preparing to fight this ideology.
“Our politicians I think, from all parties, are very reluctant to even name the ideology in question.
“There is a concerted effort after an attack like that on Monday night not to listen to the sort of things that are said that would impel somebody to do something like that, to listen to what they say, what they mean.”
Mr Murray, who wrote The Strange Death of Europe, claimed the west knows the motivation behind the attacks carried out in recent years.
He said: “Last month the national act of mourning in Westminster Abbey after the Westminster terror attack just down the road from here the Dean of Westminster on the behalf of this nation stood up and said we may never know what would drive somebody to do this, sorry we do know.
“We know why somebody like Khalid Masood did what he did on Westminster Bridge and outside Houses of Parliament.
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