First there was Nice; then there was the incident in the Alps, where a young man stabbed a mother and her daughters because they were, to his mind, scantily clad; then there was the axe attack on the German train; then came Munich; and now we have Ansbach.
To put all these attacks into the same category might be thought a mistake; after all, some were clearly attacks inspired by ISIS, and others were acts of lone sick minds, while others might well have been both. The ideology of ISIS is unquestionably guilty of producing mass murder, but in concentrating on ISIS, which we clearly should do, we should not neglect another factor that is at work here, namely anger, a sin which clearly affects many Muslims, but can affect the rest of us too.
