A large part of my work is making elementary distinctions that are repeatedly obscured, and apparently deliberately so, by those who should know better, and probably do. In the first place, there is no evidence as far as I know that Masood was an observant or devout Christian at any time in his life, and testimony from people who knew him that he was a “very religious” Muslim. Moreover, when he was violent before he converted to Islam, this violence had nothing to do with Christianity, as Christianity does not exhort believers to commit acts of violence. When he was violent after he converted to Islam, there is every reason to believe that he may have found justification for his violence in the numerous texts and teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah that exhort believers to commit acts of violence and tell them they will be rewarded by Allah for doing so.

But the next time there is a jihad attack in Britain, Sayeeda Warsi will say the same thing again, and no one will dare contradict her or try to cut through her obfuscations; to do so would be “Islamophobic.”

“Dewsbury politician says Westminster attacker was ‘violent Christian before he was a violent Muslim,'” by Nick Lavigueur, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, March 26, 2017:

The man behind the Westminster terror attack was a “violent Christian long before he was a violent Muslim”, Dewsbury-born peer, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, has said. Khalid Masood, 52, killed five people and injured 50 in London last Wednesday before he was shot dead by police. Appearing on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday, Baroness Warsi, a former Tory cabinet member, criticised the government’s counter-terrorism strategy. Baroness Warsi, who grew up attending a mosque in Savile Town, Dewsbury, said it was wrong to only focus on Islam. She said research on terrorism had found anything between 15 to 28 tell-tale signs of people who were potential threats. She said: “One of the questions I’ve asked for a couple of years is what actually makes a violent Jihadi? What makes a terrorist? “My argument has consistently been that the government has been obsessively focused on just one – which we refer to as Islamist ideology.” Asked by Marr how the security services should track down terrorists, she responded: “There has been a narrative that says Muslim people know who these people are. “And not only do they know them but they’re condoning them and sheltering them. “I think what we’ve seen in the terrorist attack last week is it’s incredibly difficult (to predict). “This is a man who was born in a Christian home, born in a fairly comfortable home, seemed to be living a fairly good lifestyle, was popular. “He then got involved in criminality and didn’t convert to Islam until later on in life. “So he was a violent Christian long before he was a violent Muslim. “I’m not sure any of the people who were growing up with him, indeed his own family, would have known that he would go on to commit such an extremist act.” Marr asked Baroness Warsi why it seemed violent drug taking men converted to Islam. “They don’t convert to evangelical Christianity or Hinduism, they choose Islam,” he claimed. But Baroness Warsi said there were people around the world who were evangelical Christians and Buddhists, who committed extremist acts….

That just sidesteps the question, which was surprisingly good coming from a BBC presenter.