Last Thursday, an army chaplain was stabbed multiple times by a teenage boy who, we have since come to learn, holds a “radical Islamist mindset”. Gardaí currently believe that he was “radicalised” online, particularly by “conspiracy theories regarding Irish involvement in Mali and the Middle East”.
Since that news broke and conversation got going, we’ve – funny enough – heard little enough about Islamic fundamentalism, but plenty about the threat posed by the omnipresent “far-right”. This omission, which has been noted by many as strange, is an outworking of the perversion of another religion: Christianity.
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