Whatever else he was, Abdelbaki Es Satty was a fast worker. He arrived in the small Catalan town of Ripoll in 2015 and spent a short time in Belgium before returning. Within a year as a local imam he had, it seems, convinced a group of local Spanish-Moroccan young men to forgo their interests in football and cars and take up a terminal commitment to getting killed while killing others. Es Satty died when the materials being prepared for blowing up the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona blew him up instead. His protégés nevertheless managed to murder 15 people before being shot or captured.

What did they imagine the consequences of their act would be? Not in heaven being pleasured by the houris or even