ChatterBank4 mins ago
Interesting, Isn't It?
There was so much heat and light generated when it was thought that a murderous Islamist was on a rampage. It's all gone a bit quiet since it has been confirmed that he specifically targeted women and the only man he killed was a hard-working muslim (added irony there, I think).
Misogyny is a growing evil in the world.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Of course Islamist attacks are going to be at the fore-front of minds but when it was confirmed that this was not such an attack, it seems to be less important that this was a misogynist attack on women by an 'incel'.
I'd ge grateful if Gaza, etc. could be kept out of this particular discussion. Otherwise I will be forced to conclude that is it another attempt to switch the focus of the story onto something other than an attack by a woman-hating man.
mass killings by "incel" attackers have been on the rise for the last few years and have often mixed in with far right ideology
as i recall the killer in plymouth was also an incel, though he did not specifically target women with violence like this person did
i don't know what the solution is. Incels do not have a coherent ideology like other terror groups and cannot really predicted with any precision because so much of it develops in anonymous online spaces...
Murderous Incels are very difficult to predict, but the rise of casual misogyny and the proliferation of woman-hating on-line content is fuelling those fires.
Teenaged boys are being exposed to evermore graphic and violent pornography and they are taking it out on girls....around the world. These are habits that will take years to correct and in the meantime women and girls are becomong victimised and the objects of violence.