Claiming terror victims as martyrs for multiculturalism is an insult to their memory
The state should focus on stopping the scourge of anti-Western violence in Britain, not managing our emotions in response
Have you heard about National Terrorism Day? The Home Office decreed last week that starting August 21 2026, and continuing each year after that until we sink into the sea, “The nation will come together to honour and remember victims and survivors of terrorism”.
Islamist monsters have blown up, stabbed and run over so many Britons in recent years, it seems, that the Government is worried the public might be getting rather upset about it all. Events are to be held in a different location each year, “in recognition of the widespread impact of terrorism across the United Kingdom”, and will coincide with a UN tribute to terrorism victims.
The boffins in Whitehall have apparently forgotten that we already have a national day to celebrate the successful defeat of terrorism, November 5. Perhaps the focus on actually foiling gunpowder plots raises too many uncomfortable questions for our security services. No doubt anyone hoping to update that tradition by, say, burning an effigy of the Manchester Arena bomber, would be done for a hate crime.
So what is this magicked up “New National Day” to entail? Are we to hang decorations from the anti-terror bollards? Presumably, assembling vast, vulnerable crowds in the streets won’t quite be the ticket, for obvious reasons.
The Home Office says: “The day will focus on remembering and recognising those impacted by terrorism, encouraging victims and survivors to access specialist support, educating the public, and amplifying victims’ and survivors’ stories.” I’m sure readers are counting the days.
Terror victims of course have everyone’s utmost sympathy. But that’s why this initiative feels deeply emotionally manipulative. We know that state agencies like the shadowy Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) take great pains to stage manage public responses to terror attacks. A sentimental, even mawkish focus on the suffering of the victims is seen as a politically palatable response to such violence as it increasingly blights our nation. If we’re sighing and reaching for a hanky, we’re not thinking about who the terrorists are, why they hate us, or why they weren’t stopped.
Indeed, it’s clear that political correctness is animating this initiative. There are three terror attacks mentioned in the press release: the 1984 “IRA Brighton hotel bombing”, and then the “Westminster Bridge attack”, and the “Manchester Arena attack”, both in 2017. Decades after the Troubles ended, the Government is happy enough to namecheck the IRA.
But the cause behind the other two terror attacks – Islamism – is simply not remarked on. Indeed, at no point does it acknowledge what is the principal terror threat we face today, which has claimed 97 lives this in Britain this century, its latest two victims just two months ago at a Manchester synagogue.
Instead, we hear in the vaguest of terms of those “affected by terrorism”, and of the need to “raise awareness” of its “impacts”. This violent, anti-Western scourge is presented as something entirely apolitical, as random and unavoidable as a natural disaster.
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