What does it say about us?

Kirsty Boden: murdered as she came to help

Just over a year ago a young nurse rushed to offer first aid at what she thought was a traffic accident. 

It wasn't. 

Three Muslim terrorists had deliberately rammed their van into pedestrians on London Bridge. They then emerged and one of the people they murdered that night was that nurse who had run over to help.

That is the enemy we face. 

They are people who can do that. 

They are people who can stab a young woman to death who has rushed to an accident to help strangers.

That is them. That is the beginning and the end of all you need to know about them. 

But who are we?

Well, some of us are like Kirsty or the seven other people who are to be awarded for their bravery during the London Bridge attack.

They are the best of us and we should honour their memory and try to live up to them.

And we should remember them when we sentence Islamists who have incited murder. We need to remember that they are telling other Muslims to do exactly what those three murdering scum did at London Bridge.

So what does it say about us when we let such people go free?

One such is Farhana Ahmed. She was 'prolific' in her incitement to murder the rest of us. She also tried to join the head-hackers in Islamic State not once but twice. And yet her judge freed her because her custody had had an "extremely adverse effect on [her] children".

Maybe it had. 

But he should have placed more emphasis on the extremely adverse effect the murder of people like Kirsty has on their loved ones and jailed Ahmed for life as a warning to other Islamic supremacists.

What does it say about us that we let such people go free?



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