Today's headline may become a regular feature here at SteynOnline - because in the vibrantly multicultural west the stabbing of the native population is becoming a routine event. Following Saturday's pogrom at a village dance in rural France, in Dublin yesterday three schoolgirls and a member of staff were stabbed. Or as the BBC put it, lapsing into the passive voice:
Three children and a school care assistant were injured in a knife attack in the city centre.
Oh, that's so sad. Did the knife attack them all on its own or was there a human being as its accomplice? Ah, well...
The "extraordinary outbreak of violence" had come after "hateful assumptions" were made based on material circulating online in the wake of the stabbings...
It is understood that included false claims that the attacker was a foreign national.
Sources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen in his late 40s who has lived in the country for 20 years.
Really? You're being a bit coy, aren't you? If "sources have indicated to" you, maybe you could indicate to us a bit more about what those sources indicated. The "false claims" online were that the stabber was an "Algerian immigrant" or "a man from Algeria". So is the BBC saying merely that this "Irishman" may well have originated in Algeria but he managed to procure an Irish passport so that makes him as Irish as Paddy O'Peat-Bog? Because while that may be true as a matter of law it doesn't...
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