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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Why would some people feel differently today, than they would after the 2015 Paris attacks?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

leading britain's conversation this is a podcast from lbc james o'brien i don't think it's the wrong approach at all james

0:10.2

says antonia in an early tweet this guy literally mentions sadiq in the bit of his manifesto that the mirror published

0:16.8

i need to check that but what i meant when i suggested that I think I might have been preparing to approach this story from the wrong angle this morning,

0:25.9

was that I was going to be looking at the question of who radicalised them.

0:29.5

And we pretty much know the answers to that, partly because one of the...

0:33.3

It's the closest I've ever come to swearing on the radio, largely because one of the terrorists responsible for this atrocity has,

0:40.9

sort of just as Anders Bearing Breivik did before him,

0:43.8

listed people in public life, including the British media, that he admires.

0:49.8

And we ask the same question when an Islamist atrocity occurs.

0:53.6

But of course those of us who are of an Anglo-Saxon heritage and don't have any Arabic can't read the stuff that radicalises those terrorists.

1:02.8

I want to talk today about something that seems to have moved out of sight in the course of the time that we've been

1:13.6

talking together every morning. I think that I want to talk about why I am examining my conscience and my feelings this morning and feeling a sense of relief that I don't today feel any different from how I do when an Islamist terror attack occurs.

1:37.0

I don't today feel...

1:38.3

It's not as close to home, of course, of the Manchester as the Manchester Arena attack. But if you think of the

1:45.1

Bata clan theatre theatre in Paris, which is probably the most obviously comparable, a massacre,

1:52.8

a gunshot massacre, I don't feel any different. I just feel enormous sadness for the victims,

1:58.3

and I'm not going to lie to you. I feel at this point

2:01.7

in proceedings an incoherent rage towards the perpetrators. I don't think I feel any different

2:09.1

and I don't understand the people who do. I never did understand the people who could look at the

2:17.3

Manchester Arena terror attack

2:18.9

or the Nice.

2:21.3

You remember when the promenade in Nice was subjected to a terrorist attack by a man driving a truck

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