With still nothing definitively known about the identity of the Munich, Germany attacker or attackers early Friday night, MSNBC’s MTP Daily ushered the Brexit vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union into the conversation as an example of anti-refugee sentiment that, in their speculations, was behind the mall shooting in Germany.

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel had already touted the fears about the rise of right-leaning governments in Europe (as if left-wing governments aren’t ever a concern) but he then invoked Brexit to the agreement of host Chuck Todd.

“Do you draw a straight line? I mean, do you draw a straight line from basically the Syrian refugee crisis to Brexit to what we are seeing in Germany and France,” Todd wondered.

Engel responded that he indeed could even though “the Brexit anger was actually about internal European migration and the people in the UK were famously angry at the Poles because they were taking the blue collar jobs, and there was anger that the British society already changed because of immigration, and then there was the fear, somewhat unrealistic, but there was this fear that now all the Syrians and Middle Easterners are coming.”

While the attack on innocent civilians in Germany could very well had been done by a neo-Nazi or someone not related to ISIS, but the idea that a well-determining vote by the British people to be able to make their own choices about the way their country is run from the borders to economic regulations could have triggered someone killing anyone is at least questionable and at worse irresponsible.

To borrow a phrase that NewsBusters contributing writer P.J. Gladnick often employs, here’s an exit question: Would the media be making such a huge deal about such attacks if they were carried out by a far-left or communist gunman?

The relevant portion of the transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily on July 22 can be found below.