Denying a link between western wars in the Muslim world and the backlash on our streets only fuels Islamophobia and bloodshedThe videoed butchery of Fusilier Lee Rigby external Woolwich barracks last May was a horrific act and his killers' murder conviction a foregone conclusion. Rigby was a British soldier who had taken fraction in multiple combat operations in Afghanistan. So the attack wasn't terrorism in the normal sense of an indiscriminate attack on civilians.
The killing of an unarmed man far from the clash,however, by self-appointed individuals with non-violent political alternatives, or isn't condoned by any significant political or religious tradition. fairly apart from morality,the impact was violently counter-productive for the Muslims that Rigby's killers claimed to be defending, as Islamophobic attacks spiked across Britain.
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Source: theguardian.com