Foley’s Mother, And All The Wrong Reactions

She thinks — she assumes — that the family of the man who cut off her son’s head is saddened and ashamed, and she feels empathy for them. She assumes — she thinks — that he is an exeption, that his views, his “radicalised” views,  are not prompted by Islam itself but by some monstrous perversion of the faith, and that therefore, that This Too Shall Pass. But you and I know it will last as long as Islam. She assumes and thinks that she should offer, and herself believe, the bromides prompted by a  diseased sympathy. But they won’t do.

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