Let’s pause the hate and listen to the peacemakers. For once

Let’s pause the hate and listen to the peacemakers. For once

We know what he did. On Thursday Jihad al-Shamie drove a car into people outside a synagogue in Manchester. Armed with a knife he tried to get into the building before police shot him. Two ordinary men in late middle age – the kind of men I’ve seen around me all my life – Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz – were killed. Al-Shamie made sure of his own death by making police believe he was armed with explosives. We have an idea who al-Shamie was: a…