Nice attacker killed for reasons other than a twisted devotion to religion
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Ian Birrell Sunday July 17th 2016
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/isis-red-herring-bouhlel-killed-reasons-twisted-devotion-religion/
Like so many children Yannis Coviaux loved the
beach, playing in the sand and the sea. His
father’s solitary consolation this weekend is
that his four-year-old boy died happy, clutching
a toy car and contented after a blissful day with
friends. Yannis was among the victims mown down
by a 19-tonne refrigerated truck driven by a mass murderer.
His tale is just one of the heartbreaking stories
from the Bastille Day massacre in Nice. Father
Mickael Coviaux told a French paper how he pulled
his wife out of the way and dived to the ground
as the lorry, driven with such lethal intent,
bore down on them. Then he looked up and saw his
son lying still in a pool of blood. ‘When I saw
him on the floor, I immediately understood,’ he said. ‘It looked like Aylan.’
“Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drank, smoke, gambled
and took drugs. He ate pork, enjoyed music and,
although a married father of three, eyed up his neighbour’s daughters”
Two tiny boys. Two tiny corpses. And one apparent
link in that they were both victims of jihadist
terrorism in their own separate ways. Aylan
Kurdi, a three-year-old Kurd from northern Syria
who fled the savagery of Islamic State only to
drown in the Mediterranean amid hostility to such
refugees. And Yannis Coviaux, a four-year-old
French boy who died after a day spent playing
innocently in the surf of the same sea.
Yannis was far from the only child to die last
week in Nice. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel also
killed another four-year-old named Kylian Mejri,
along with his mother Olfa Ben Souayah
Khalfallah; like Bouhlel, she lived in France but
was of Tunisian descent. These atrocities do not
discriminate between religions or nationalities,
of course, since their sole purpose is to sow the
utmost havoc, horror and hatred.
Muslim fanaticism not the root cause
But we should pause to ponder whether politicians
and the media are playing a part in furthering
their divisive cause. The Nice killings were
instantly blamed on Islamic State, fuelling fears
over Muslim fanaticism. Sure enough, the terror
group soon claimed Bouhlel was one of their
‘soldiers’. With the now familiar choreography of
such attacks, French politicians condemned IS
depravity while opponents – particularly the
far-right – sought to make maximum political capital from bloodshed.
Public concerns are understandable; this was the
third major attack on French soil in 18 months.
Yes, we know burgers, cars and smoking wipe out
far more people in the West than terrorist bombs,
guns and knives. That fewer people died in recent
years from terrorism than in previous decades.
And that such evil slaughter is the most ignorant
perversion of Islam. But cold statistics do not set racing minds at rest.
Yet was Bouhlel really a jihadist killer, dying
from twisted devotion to his religion? Or merely
a pathetic inadequate who cloaked himself in
their cause to carry out deeds no different from
those mass shootings we see all too often in
America? France’s interior minister claimed
Bouhlel ‘radicalised himself very quickly.’ And
there is no doubt IS seeks to encourage such
killings. Before rushing to judgement and
inflating their cruel image, however, consider the facts.
As a boy, Bouhlel was troubled and violent – ‘he
would break anything he saw in front of him,’
said his father. The delivery driver had been
prescribed medication for depression. He drank,
smoke, gambled and took drugs. He ate pork,
enjoyed music and, although a married father of
three, eyed up his neighbour’s daughters. He was
a loner, estranged from his wife and probably
suffering financial problems. He was known to
police for theft and domestic violence, but not
for links to religious extremism.
Bouhlel’s family said he did not pray or attend a
mosque. His wife’s cousin said ‘he was not a
Muslim, he was a shit… a nasty piece of work.’
Perhaps in the depths of despair he found solace
suddenly in religion and fell in with hardliners.
Possibly he was turned rapidly by the
bloodstained bigots of Isis into a jihadist
killer. But even if confirmed, the evidence still
points to a sick individual filled with loathing,
whose personal troubles exploded in the most terrible way on the wider world.
Similarity to Orlando killings
In this, he was no different to Omar Mateen,
another disturbed man who last month killed 49
people at a gay nightclub in Florida. Once again,
he left little trail of links to religious
extremists although had watched gruesome Isis
videos; his only radical messages posted online
came the night he carried out barbarity. He had
even been followed by the FBI for months. But he
beat up classmates, was a long-term steroid user
and, although twice married, seems to have struggled with his sexuality.
How often do we hear these mass killers took
drugs, stole and were violent before seeking
infamy? And how rare the evidence they observed
tenets of the religion in whose name they kill.
Yet the consequences of their carnage is clear –
just look at the latest Pew survey showing a rise
in unfavourable views of Muslims across Europe.
The proportion of British people holding such
views has risen from 19 to 28 per cent since last
year; in several nations from Spain to Hungary, it is far higher.
Such data must delight those seeking to drive
open fissures in our society. Not just leaders of
jihadist groups, but also loathsome nationalist
politicians who trade in public fear. If we want
to preserve our liberal democracies, we need to
resist their hostility. Yet in the rush to pin a
label on losers who take out their self-hatred on
humanity, are we doing some dirty work for those
seeking more death, destruction and division?
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