If we didn’t have our moral superiors around to assure us otherwise, we might almost be tempted to think that this attack had something to do with Islam.
“‘When I grow up I’m going to be a terrorist’: As a dope-smoking boy in the suburbs, Sudesh Amman fantasised about killing police and had an ISIS flag in his room… on Sunday he went on knife rampage (after a final mutton biryani from mum),” by Sam Greenhill, Daily Mail, February 4, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
As a schoolboy, he struck gangster-style poses and vowed to classmates: ‘When I grow up I am going to be a terrorist.’
They thought Sudesh Amman was joking, but he meant it.
On Sunday, the 20-year-old was shot dead as he embarked on the Streatham knife rampage – days after asking his mother to cook his favourite mutton biryani.
As a schoolboy, he struck gangster-style poses and vowed to classmates: ‘When I grow up I am going to be a terrorist.’ They thought Sudesh Amman – who was shot dead as he embarked on the Streatham knife rampage – was joking, but he meant it.
It had been Amman’s twisted ambition to ‘die as a martyr’, as he once wrote under the heading Goals In Life, in a notebook found by police.
He was an obsessive online gamer who loved playing violent shoot-’em-ups such as Call Of Duty – even boasting he wanted to play the war game ‘in real life’.
Former classmates in the London suburbs talked of a ‘weird’ loner who was obsessed with knives, constantly smoked marijuana and even claimed that he was carrying around grenades.
Amman spent the days leading up to the stabbing frenzy alone and praying in a bail hostel, having been released early from a terrorism sentence at Belmarsh prison….