Stabbing that left three dead in Reading England considered a terror incident

Police stand guard at the site of the attack in Reading England. NPR/AP.

A stabbing that left three people dead and several others injured is being treated as a terror attack. NPR. The attack took place in a public park in Reading England. The attacker used a 5 inch knife and killed the victims before being tackled by police. The suspect was 25 years old and a Libyan national. No one else is a suspect in the attack and the attacker is thought to have acted on his own. Terror attacks are not uncommon in the UK, but they usually happen in the London area. 

My Comment:

This attack happened yesterday, but I took the day off from blogging. I think though that this attack is significant enough that it deserves more coverage than it is getting. The news is, as usual, focusing on nonsense instead of actual news stories and covering the stories that the news either doesn't cover or downplay is a major reason why I started this blog in the first place. 

As far as mass stabbings go this was a bad one. Three people dead is quite a few for a mass stabbing, which usually have very few deaths, even though many people can get hurt. It also seems like police weren't available right away to stop the attacker. 

I do think it's utterly insane that the police took this guy alive. If the article is right and they tackled the guy then kudos for them, but that's an extreme risk to have to take. I know most UK police are unarmed and this attack shows why that's a bad idea. The cops that tackled the attacker could have easily been another victim of him. They got really lucky that they were able to tackle him without getting stabbed. 

This looks like another lone wolf attack, which seems to be the only kinds of terror attacks that happen anymore. The days of ISIS or al-Qaeda pulling off huge and complex terror attacks seem to be over. But since picking up a knife is something basically anyone can do, it's been replaced by mass stabbings like this one (or vehicle attacks). With the main terror organizations having been dismantled and the last major attack being the Easter Sri Lanka attacks last year, I'm guessing that most terror attacks in the future will be the same way, unless these groups reform. 

I am fairly disgusted by the censorship the UK has. I don't think they have any right to tell people that they can't share video or pictures of the attack on social media. The people of the UK deserve to know what is happening in their country and if that offends the sensibilities of social justice warriors than so be it. However, it doesn't seem that any video was taken of this event.