I will not write his name, and the media should not have done so. They should not have carried his photo, analysed his life, turned him from a nobody into a celebrity, albeit for the wrong reasons. To write his name is to give him the glory he sought. If you hate what this man did and stands for …
…ossible, it is to kill enough people to spread fear and panic. We fall into their trap by reacting. If ISIS didn’t get days of front page news coverage every time they convince a radicalised, fragile-minded man to kill people then perhaps they would not continue to pursue this particular strategy.