the desperate hours

I've refrained from commenting on the murders in France.
As I write a Muslim Jihadi is in a siege situation with the French police in Toulouse.
It was probably him alright.
He probably murdered those three French Special Forces soldiers and the Jewish Rabbi, and the three Jewish children.
But he certainly had accomplices.
Including his brother.
I know this already, because already, he has denied it.
One of the saddest and most salient features of the atrocities for me has been the delusional manner in which they've been reported on international television stations.
From the first murders of the Special Forces soldiers, to the slaughter a few days ago of the Jewish rabbi and the three Jewish children, every step of the way I've been struck by the media's refusal to contemplate the reality of what's going on.
There was talk of racist killing.
There was talk of serial killing.
There was talk of pathological sniper killing.
There was no talk of Al Qaeda.
There was no talk of terrorism.
There was no talk of Muslim fundamentalists.
The news channels of the Western world seemed congenitally determined not to mention Jihad in spite of the mounting evidence that Jihad was exactly what we faced.
And nobody, but nobody, mentioned the peaceloving religion of Islam in any context, except to disingenuously insist that one of the soldiers who was murdered was Muslim.
Of course Jihadi Muslims regularly target Muslims who join Western armies.
As I type this, the muted strains of Sky News' half wit reporters are filling my ears.
Sky reporters and others are desperately contextualising the murderers actions in the most neutral and foolish of terms.
They're justifying him for crying out loud.
They're veritably trumpetting his nonsensical claims to be a political activist protesting against French foreign policy in Afghanistan.
Here is the news.
The murderer is a Jihadi.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
The Sky journos will say anything except the truth.
Their tears are the tears of a particularly appeaserish crocodile.
I'll tell you folks.
The murders of those three French Special Forces soldiers, the murder of the Rabbi, and the murders of the three Jewish children, were indeed crimes against humanity.
But the real crime happened after.
It's happening now.