Fast Takes: Name the Islamist threat, suicide of the West and other commentary

“Frankness is essential,” argues Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill after the mayhem at the Berlin Pride Parade, yet despite the attacker being “known for having connections to Islamist circles,” his Muslim identity and terrorist sympathies have been downplayed by the “self-righteous” who are “self-gagging” in the general “muffling of public opinion” that attends every such outrage. ...