Finsbury Park

Subject: Finsbury Park

Is there any difference between the Finsbury Park incident and perhaps the London Bridge incident where in both instances the perpetrators chose to run down innocent people on the pavement.
Both were racially motivated hate crimes. One against Muslims one against non Muslims one calling for the death of Muslims the other for the death of people who did not belong to the faith. One seems to have been more impulsive in that apart from using the van as a weapon he carried no other weapons and succumbed to being overpowered without much of a struggle, the other was a definite killing mission with knifes drawn and a rampage amongst the people stabbing at random. Death to themselves was part of the package necessitating the police to shoot them to stop them.
The one, as I say appears to be motivated by a random act of retaliation for the spate of killing which has gone on, not only in this country but world wide. An amateur who had taken the law into his own hands, a response to a trend of Islamic terrorism which seems well organised and funded and has at its heart a disgust for people who are not of the faith and not only the faith but a specific sect within the faith.
The "far right" as they describe the people who define their own hatred in terms of a specific group have never been particularly specific. Over time they have shown contempt for most non white people, they have been contemptuous  of liberal authority, or as they would put it, the appeasement of being conciliatory to others who don't fit a specific stereotype. As disdainful as they are they are not specifically terrorist, their marches are an overt example of their intolerance, nothing more and whilst there have been in the past examples of extremism and violence, particularly in Germany and currently in Greece it has never been condoned by the public at large.
Of course  Islamic terrorism is not condoned by the ordinary Muslim but there are references in the Koran which do condone violence and reparation. With a religion so closely tied to the believers on the ground, the ordinary men who attend the mosque every day, a religion which is a part of their life in a way Christianity is not part of the ordinary Christians life style and observance, that in this total absorbance of holy text and mission, then we must realise that the jahidi is much closer to the congregation through scripture than the "far right" can ever be to mainstream society.