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Britain's
Muddled Priorities?
by Douglas Murray
• May 14, 2016 at 5:00 am
A video still from the mock terrorist attack staged on May
9, 2016 by the police in Manchester, England.
Sometimes you can see a whole society's self-delusion in under a minute.
Consider a single minute that occurred in Britain this week.
On Monday night, Greater Manchester Police staged a pre-prepared mock
terrorist attack in a Manchester shopping centre in order to test emergency
responses capabilities, readiness and response times. At one stage, an actor
playing a suicide bomber burst through a doorway in a crowded part of the
shopping centre and detonated a fake device.
It turned out that the actor pretending to be a suicide bomber had
shouted the words "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is Greatest")
before the simulated attack. This may have helped make the simulation more
realistic, but it had an immediate backlash. Nobody complained about the
simulated attacks. What disturbed some people was the simulation of the
signature Islamist sign-off.
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