.... Lone wolf attackers like Monis portray themselves as terrorists or freedom fighters, demanding to be thought of as part of the global jihadi cause, associating themselves with big headline-grabbing groups, from Al Qaeda to Islamic State. But is there a danger to giving them the attention they crave.
"Islamic State is the biggest brand around," Raffaello Pantucci, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) told HuffPost UK. "It's a big anti-establishment brand, that has eclipsed all else. It's a brand that other people want to be associated with, they want to catch that spotlight.
[TOP RATED COMMENT] Why get into a semantics argument over whether the Huffington Post wants to call him a terrorist or not?
Moreover, there is no clinical evidence that this murderer in Australia was any more or less mentally ill than those who behead innocent care workers in Iraq because they happen to be American or British.
It was a criminal act, yet another atrocity committed in the name of Islam.
[ANOTHER] I think a better question would be - 'Should we allow a violent, intolerant, backward ideology to be called a Religion?'
[ANOTHER] More to the point, should we allow the HuFF to blacken the name of millions of people with mental health issues in order to divert attention from the common factor in most terrorist crimes against humanity?
Time and again it is ISLAM [The Huffington Post UK] Read more
