Caller: 'If the Streatham attacker was white, people would have blamed mental illness'
February 4, 2020
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as posted by the channelIain Dale and a caller disagreed over whether some mosques are doing enough to prevent terror attacks.
The caller, who has worked a lot with convicts to try and stop them from re-offending, spoke to Iain Dale about the Streatham attacker.
Omar said: "So if it was a white person that had done it, just hear me out and give me a chance, the first thing that people would have been saying is that he's got mental issues.
"So we want to understand, did he have mental issue? Because it's not a more normal person to carry out something like this."
He also asked why authorities didn't put "the right methods and mechanisms in place" when they knew Sudesh Amman's intentions to kill.
Iain Dale asked what mechanisms they could have put in place when there was already a surveillance operation.
Omar argued that there should have been professionals to intervene that could have reformed him.
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