Jihad Watch brought you this story on Tuesday; here are more details. Note that Morten Bøås of the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs “thought the group of men may have been inspired by ISIS or radicalised through the web.”

Yes, of course. “Radicalised through the web.” What else could possibly have happened? Morten Bøås is sure that there couldn’t possibly be any jihadists in Morocco. Islam is a religion of peace! If any happened to be there, it’s because they were radicalized on the Internet!

And this dope is in the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs.

In any case, Louisa Jespersen and Maren Ueland are more casualties of the Left’s fantasy world. What were they doing, two young women alone, camping in Morocco?

They no doubt learned in today’s universities, which are saturated with moral relativism and contemptuous of absolutes, that there is no dispute between people that can’t be settled by mutually respectful “dialogue,” and that the troubles in the world today are primarily the fault of the U.S. and Israel. So why should two girls from Scandinavia have anything to worry about in Morocco? They no doubt learned that Islam is a religion of peace, and that only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think otherwise. So why should they have had any reason to be concerned about hiking in Morocco?

Those who might have warned them of the risk are subject to furious and concerted demonization. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — and the establishment media that treats the SPLC as if it were a reliable source — sees only one group of genuinely evil people in the world. Those who recognize that there are evil forces in the world that are set against the United States, and who want to protect Americans against Islamic jihadists, criminal migrants, and more, are the only evil ones. Jespersen and Ueland almost certainly had nothing but contempt for such “intolerance” and “hate” manifested by foes of jihad terror and unrestricted illegal immigration.

“Backpackers killed in Morocco by ‘ISIS terrorists’ with one filmed being beheaded,” by Andrew Koubaridis, News.com,au, December 20, 2018: