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Do you know why there are very few trash cans in central London? Literally, you can walk for half a mile without finding a trash can, it's annoying as hell.
Well, the reason for that is because the IRA liked to put bombs in them. Ya know, the whitest of white people.
London's history with terrorism comes from all kinds of places. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit your narrative about the evil brown people, but that's the reality of the matter.
To identify al Qaida, ISIL, and similar groups as Islamic terrorist organizations and acknowledge the risk they pose to even the most innocent of people everywhere is not any kind of diatribe against 'evil brown people' any more than condemning the propensity of the IRA and Provisional IRA to commit similar acts of terrorism is any kind of diatribe against 'evil white people.' They are what they are. Islamic terrorism has included white, black, brown, and Asian people.
To suspect Islamic terrorists for the attack this morning is entirely reasonable. To put a racial I.D. on it not so much.