Leaders and press should stop using the word 'terrorist.' If attackers were labelled something belittling, such as irrational extreme impaired substance abuser unmotivated they wouldn't be strutting around saying "I'm somebody. I'm a terrorist." (The same applies to serial killers, who should just be given numbers, not tags such as 'Son of Sam' or 'BTK'.) I watched footage of the attack near the mosque. When the suspect was loaded into a van, he waved cheerfully at the camera. Obviously he relished the publicity. He is almost certainly a few bricks shy of a load.
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