The London bombers were ordinary, sociable British men without deprivation

Evidence

The photographs of the perpetrators and the photographs of the victims — who could tell them apart? There is no tell-tale “demonic stain” on the faces of the killers. They aren’t the austere, obsessive “foreigners” that the popular imagination had conjured. They wore trainers and tracksuits, they were religious, sure, but no one thought they were fanatics. They weren’t even socially dysfunctional geeks. By all accounts, they were popular, played cricket. Nor was there any obvious lack or deprivation in their lives. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1443

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to analysis of terrorism stereotypes and who counts as a terrorist in The New Crusades on white supremacist terror.