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Why aren't we more horrified by the Liverpool bombing?

16 November 2021

6:12 AM

16 November 2021

6:12 AM

Back when the West was still pretending to fight the ‘war on terror’, Martin Amis made an observation about the enemy’s tactics:

‘Suicide-mass murder is more than terrorism: it is horrorism. It is a maximum malevolence. The suicide-mass murderer asks his prospective victims to contemplate their fellow human being with a completely new order of execration.

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