He was just “frustrated,” you see, and as a result, Judge Pringle told him, “you began to express to Mr Malik that you had been patient for a long time and started to talk about carrying out a violent attack. Maybe with a knife, maybe with a car that you would drive into a crowd, and concentrating on white people. Mr Malik said that you had sworn in a mosque that you would do that.”

Judge Pringle admonished him: “You do need some assistance and some change if you are going to establish yourself as a lawful citizen of this country in due course.” And he gave him “a community order for 18 months to include a rehabilitation activity requirement for 20 days and participation in the Resolve programme. He must also abide by a daily curfew at his home address between 7pm and 7am and pay a victim surcharge.”

Is all that going to disabuse Sayadi of his jihadist sentiments? They won’t even be addressed. To discuss them would be “Islamophobic.” And so the next time Sayadi becomes “frustrated,” watch out.

“Man who vowed to ‘drive a car into a crowd of white people’ spared jail,” by Will Walker, Oxford Mail, February 23, 2018: