Another week, another senseless terrorist attack. It is too soon to make clear sense of what has happened. The suspect has been identified as 31-year-old French Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, but not much is known about him. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was not in a terrorist watchlist and was not known to have had extremist views.
And yet, it is significant that even before the facts have become known, it was assumed that this was an act of Islamic extremism.
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