Let’s not fuel intolerance by reaction - Terror attack in Berlin

IT would not be surprising if Germany, a shining example of how to respond to the refugee crisis, was attacked by a zealot who reached that country a destitute supplicant dependent on a culture he opposed. 

The Berlin murders show, if the killer does indeed fall into that category, that man’s proclivity to bite the hand that feeds remains a dark mystery at the heart of the human condition.

It seems inevitable that the I-told-you-so naysayers assumed that an Islamic migrant was responsible for Monday’s atrocity at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Christmas market where at least 12 people died. The right-wing Alternative for Germany suggested early yesterday, before the first suspect was released, that their country’s — and by tacit extension Europe’s — Christian traditions were under attack. They may well be right but judgement on this attack must wait.