Just hours after news broke that a radical inspired by ISIS drove into a bikepath, killing eight people and injuring over a dozen others, MSNBC was already out deflecting blame from the radical religious ideology behind the attack. The network’s terrorism analyst, Malcolm Nance, defended Islam, saying it wasn’t responsible for Tuesday’s terror attack. He even brought Christianity into the mix, saying that sometimes Christians were responsible for terror.
Hardball host Chris Matthews brought Nance into the conversation on Tuesday night’s program, asking him about the trend of terrorists using vehicles to go on their violent rampages. Nance responded that it was nothing new, and had been employed by terrorists in Israel dozens of times already.
Well, you know, people think that this is a relatively new tactic and in fact it isn’t, it’s been used in Israel well over 50 times and then over the last two years we have seen a spade of attacks in Nice, Germany, at the Christmas market, London, two attacks which culminated in weapon attacks, and then of course the one that took place in Barcelona. Which was very, very similar to the one that took place today. This is a devolution of ISIS and Al Qaeda’s terrorism, from highly organized 9/11 type attacks, Paris style attacks, down to inspiring the individual to either grab a knife, or get in their vehicle and just go out there and commit an individual act of terrorism.
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