Manchester Terrorist Identified

What a surprise. I was sure the Manchester terrorist would turn out to have a name like John Smith. But no:

Police on Tuesday identified the man who blew himself up the previous night at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, as 22-year-old Salman Abedi. CBS News confirmed Abedi was known to British authorities prior to the attack.

In a generic statement posted online, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for Abedi’s suicide bomb attack, which left 22 people dead, including children, at one of the entrances to the Manchester Arena.

Whether the Islamic State really bears direct responsibility remains to be determined. But it appears clear that Islam in general gets yet another notch in its scimitar.

The bomb wielded by Abedi was designed to kill and maim as many people as possible; many of the survivors suffered shrapnel wounds and ball bearings were found at the scene. …

Prime Minister May said the attacker had deliberately chosen “his time and place to cause maximum carnage” in the young crowd.

Evil for its own sake to curry favor with an evil god is the hallmark of Islam.

By now it is easy to recognize. We have been seeing quite a lot of it in Europe, uncoincidentally accompanying the massive wave of “refugees.”

More will follow. Hundreds of ISIS-trained terrorists have been allowed to return to England, where the extravagantly generous welfare state allows them to devote themselves full time to their terror plots.

On a tip from Bodhisattva.