“A profile on a book rating website in Bulhan’s name shows an interest in Islamic theology, listing a biography of the Prophet Mohamed and a book of Quran verses and hadiths as recent reads.” Mark Rowley, the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said: “So far we have found no evidence of radicalisation or anything that would suggest the man in our custody was motivated by terrorism.”

Has Mark Rowley ever read the life of Muhammad or any part of the Qur’an or Hadith? Almost certainly not. If he had, he would have come upon passages exhorting Muslims to kill non-Muslims (Qur’an 2:191; 4:89; 9:5; 47:4), as well as passages depicting Muhammad doing exactly that. So: “no evidence of radicalisation”? Only if one is unshakably committed to the unproven (and actually quite false) dogma that the Qur’an and Muhammad teach peace.

“Russell Square attack: London student Zakaria Bulhan named as suspect in stabbing that left American woman dead,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, August 5, 2016: