As Andrew Neil asked “What lessons are we failing to learn?” the author said: “Every imaginable one, we don’t want to listen to what extremists say. We don’t want to believe they mean what they say. We still seem to be, even after all these years and this strange cycle, we’re not preparing to fight this ideology. Our politicians I think, from all parties, are very reluctant to even name the ideology in question.” 

“We know why somebody like this young man did what he did on Monday night in Manchester. They keep telling us, it’s just we don’t want to listen. We don’t want to recognise where it comes from.” And as the BBC host asked, “where it came from?” Mr Murray said: “It comes from the religion, it is the worst possible interpretation of the religion but it comes from it. And we are very reluctant in our society to face up to that because underneath all of this there is something else happening." 

“The root cause of this and nobody, because of political correctness [will say this], these mosques are preaching hate, the Islamic schools are peaching hate… this is killing our children. It is absolutely ridiculous. It is about time someone had the balls to stand up to these people and [demand] some action. 

“The security services had this person on their radar, not acceptable. It could have been my kids, it is absolutely ridiculous. A peace march and lighting candles achieves nothing. They don’t give a monkeys about that, they don’t care. Action and it needs to be done yesterday. And if we need money for more armed forces and security services find it, it needs to be done.”

Within the last 30 days, there have been 169 Islamic terror attacks in a total of 24 different countries. Last year, the number of global terror attacks was up 25 percent from the year before, and this year we will almost certainly see another all-time record high. But many liberals never even want to use the phrase “Islamic terror” because it doesn’t fit their agenda.

In fact, many liberals immediately jumped on Twitter after the terror attack in Manchester and started warning about the spread of “Islamophobia”. Until the entire western world is willing to embrace Islam and swear allegiance to Allah, the radical Islamists will never stop. Their faith tells them that it is their destiny to rule the world, and they will never rest until they have achieved that goal.

Unfortunately, most people believe what they want to believe, and what most politically-correct pundits in the western world want to believe is that radical Islam is not the problem. Radical Islam has declared war on us, but most liberals don’t even think that we are in a war. And in any war, if one side chooses not to fight the other side wins by default. The western world desperately needs to wake up, because we are in a life or death battle, and right now this fight is only in the early rounds.

A Vatican statement said the talks had included a discussion of health care, education and assistance for immigrants, as well as “the promotion of peace in the world through political negotiation and interreligious dialogue.” For all of the attention on the major differences between Pope Francis and President Trump when it comes to immigration, climate change and arms deals, they are on the same page when it comes to issues including abortion.

The Vatican statement after the much-anticipated meeting between the pope and the president on Wednesday highlighted “the joint commitment in favor of life, and freedom of worship and conscience,” a view that some powerful conservative players in Rome had highlighted in the weeks before the meeting.

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who leads the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrinal office, said in a recent interview: “I’m now content that religious liberty in the United States is better and that they stopped the programs of Planned Parenthood for abortion. That is a good thing, a good progress.” Asked whether he trusted Mr Trump, he said, “I am very content.”

Mr Trump then introduced the rest of his family and delegation, and he and the Pope moved across the room to exchange gifts. “This is a gift for you — these are books from Martin Luther King,” Mr Trump said. “I think you will enjoy them.”

The pope then presented his gift. “This is a medallion by a Roman artist: It is an olive tree, which is a symbol of peace,” the pope said. He explained it had “two branches, and a division of war in the middle.” “We can use peace,” Mr Trump responded. The pope looked into the president’s eyes. “It is with all hope that you may become an olive tree to make peace,” the pope said.

He also gave the president his three papal exhortations — communications from the Pope to the church — and explained the topics. “The family, the Joy of the Gospel and on the care of our common home the environment,” Francis said. “Well, I’ll be reading them,” Mr Trump said. After a few more minutes of ceremony, the Pope bid the President farewell. Mr Trump shook his hand. “I won’t forget,” he said. “I won’t forget what you said.”

Investigators fear that the British-born bomber Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old of Libyan descent, was part of a wider network of ISIS-inspired terrorists, including a bomb-maker, who may still be at large. Special Forces were deployed to Manchester ready to engage in the hunt for accomplices of Abedi, who killed 22 concert-goers in Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity for 12 years.

Outlining the increased risk, Mrs May said: “It is a possibility we cannot ignore that there is a wider group of individuals linked to this attack.” Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts. It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.

With the FA Cup final this weekend, Mrs May acted on the advice of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre after chairing two meetings of the Cobra emergency committee. Security will also be stepped up at major public events and terrorist targets such as railway stations and airports.

Intelligence experts believe the device detonated at a concert by the pop singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena on Monday night was so sophisticated that Abedi must have either been given specialist training abroad or used a bomb made by a technician who has not yet been captured.

President Trump said the bomber and any accomplices were “evil losers in life”. He said: “I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. I will call them losers.” The Russian President Vladimir Putin, China’s President Xi and Germany’s Chancellor Merkel were also among those who sent messages to the Prime Minister.

Later this week Mrs May will travel to the G7 summit in Sicily where she will lead discussions on anti-terrorism measures with other leaders. A Downing Street spokesman confirmed the trip will go ahead and that Mrs May will play a major role in sessions about counter-terrorism cooperation.

“The worst kind of death. The most savage of attacks. I wanted to vomit. Crouching at the end of my bed, I wanted to be physically sick, knowing what this would mean for today. It would mean the eunuch politicians peddling their narrative that we will carry on as normal, that we stand united. Trying to find some hope to hang on to.

It would mean Andy Burnham, the new mayor of Greater Manchester, right there to tell us it would be business as usual in Manchester. I want to scream at him. Business as usual? BUSINESS AS USUAL? Tell that to the mother of 16-year-old Georgina Callander. Someone slaughtered her most special thing, the tiny baby she carried, birthed, equipped with all the things she could protect her from the world with, smiling at her loveliness as she became a young woman. 

And you say it is business as usual? The dead never get to carry on as normal. When the only option is to carry on as normal, what the hell else are we going to do? Carrying on as normal is not defiance. Or strength. It is the default. When someone dies in our family, we carry on as before because the alternative is to lie down under our duvet and hope the world goes away. And sometimes we even try that for a bit, too.

But in the end, reluctantly, we default and carry on as normal. This does not make us strong. Or united. It makes us desperate to feel better. This country is sick. It is calling out for a doctor. We need to know what will cure us. What action do we take? What do we do? How can we stop the hurt? I look back to the missing persons and see little Saffie Roussos, smiling aged eight, now confirmed dead.

And I wonder if we are too sick to be saved.”

It was deleted and replaced with a re-worded message reading “we need a true solution", but critics are calling for Ms Hopkins to be fired by Mail Online and LBC radio. Ms Hopkins has been reported to the Metropolitan Police over the tweet, which was part of a longer anti-Muslim tirade, but the force said it was too early to confirm whether an investigation would be launched.

It came after at least 22 people were killed and 59 injured in a suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on Monday night. Thousands of people, including many children and teenagers, were leaving an Ariana Grande concert and heading towards Victoria Station when the blast hit the foyer. It is the worst terror attack in the UK since 56 people were killed in the London bombings on 7 July 2005.

In a speech at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Mr Trump told Israeli ministers he believed the Palestinians are “ready to reach for peace” but stopped short of endorsing the idea of a Palestinian state. “Both Israeli and Palestinians seek lives of hope for their children and we know that peace is possible if we put aside the pain and disagreements of the past,” he said. 

The absence of any talk of two states was immediately picked up by Right-wing ministers like Naftali Bennett, who leads the pro-settler Jewish Home party. “Peace doesn’t always have to mean Israel severing part of its land and handing it over to its enemies,” Mr Bennett told The Telegraph. “That doesn’t bring peace, that brings misery.”

Mr Trump did offer challenges to both the Israeli and Palestinian sides during his brief visits. During his meeting with Mr Abbas, he urged the Palestinian leader to end the policy of making payments to the families of Palestinians who carry out attacks against Israelis.  "Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded,” Mr Trump said. His words were applauded by Mr Netanyahu.

Rhode points to former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's reaction to the deal offered to him by then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David in 2000.  "Barak offers Yasser Arafat absolutely everything in the West Bank and as it came [to] the Temple Mount – which we know in the Bible there were two Jewish Temples there – Barak said, 'you get the top of the Temple Mount where your mosques, your holy places are, we get below because those are the archaeological remnants, but it's in return for a peace agreement,'"

Rhode said. "Arafat, who could do things much more in the name of the people here than Mahmoud Abbas, jumps up, starts to shake and said, 'there never was a Jewish Temple here!'" he explained. Rhode referred to a pamphlet by the Muslim Wafk (Islamic trust), which oversees the al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, written in the 1920s. It stated that there's no doubt Solomon's Temple was on the Temple Mount.

Rhode also said while the Palestinians may be willing at some point to recognize the country of Israel, they won't recognize it as a Jewish state because that would contradict their religion. "If they recognize it as a Jewish state, they're denying the basic Muslim idea that once land is conquered by Muslims, it's Muslim forever," he said. "That is a huge violation of Islam. It's a violation of your personal honor, they say. It's apostasy and punishable by death."

Nothing more could have illustrated the massive divide between the concerns of many of the nations of the world and those of the United States, which is rapidly descending into second-rate power status, along with its NATO allies Britain, France, and Germany.

While Mr Trump was threatening to fire his senior White House staff, reprising his one-time role in his reality television show ‘The Apprentice’, China’s President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and presidents and prime ministers from around the world sat down to discuss the creation of new international and intercontinental highways, railways, and maritime routes under China’s proposed Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

Even countries that are cool on the Chinese initiative, including India and Japan, sent representatives to the summit that carried a bit more clout than the pathetic representation of the United States, Matt Pottinger, a little-known special assistant to Trump and the senior director for East Asia of National Security Council. In fact, the only reason Trump sent anyone to represent the United States at the Beijing gathering was because of a special request made by President Xi during his recent meeting with Trump at the president’s private Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Even North Korea, which rankled South Korea, Japan, and the United States by firing a ballistic missile into waters near Russia, sent a delegation to the Beijing meeting headed by Kim Yong Jae, the North’s Minister of External Economic Relations. The Trump administration, which sent a virtual unknown to Beijing, complained loudly about North Korea’s representation at the Silk Road summit.

But Washington’s complaint was conveyed by someone as unknown as Mr Pottinger, Anna Richey-Allen, a low-level spokesperson for the US State Department’s East Asia Bureau. The reason why the United States is being spoken for by middle-grade bureaucrats is that the nation that still believes it is the world’s only remaining ‘superpower’ is now governed by an administration rife with top-level vacancies, inter-agency squabbling, and amateur league players.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella told a news conference in Moscow that martial rule took effect Tuesday evening in the southern region of Mindanao “on the grounds of existence of rebellion.” “The whole of Marawi city is blacked out, there is no light, and there are Maute snipers all around,” Lorenzana said in the news conference in Moscow, which was broadcast live in the Philippines.

While pursuing peace talks with two large Muslim rebel groups in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic nation, Duterte has ordered the military to destroy smaller extremist groups which have tried to align with the Islamic State group.

Duterte had repeatedly threatened to place the south, the scene of decades-long Muslim uprisings, under martial law if terrorism spiraled out of control. Human rights groups have expressed fears that martial law powers could further embolden Duterte, whom they have accused of allowing extrajudicial killings of thousands of drug suspects in a crackdown on illegal drugs.

Every successive president starting with Franklin D Roosevelt has been bought — lock, stock and barrel — and made to dance to the tune of the Deep State. Even Dwight D Eisenhower, the retired five-star Army general-turned-president who warned against the disastrous rise of misplaced power by the military industrial complex was complicit in contributing to the build-up of the military’s role in dictating national and international policy.

Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump has paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

Just recently, for instance, Trump — boasting about the purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment because nobody makes it like the United States — agreed to sell Saudi Arabia more than $110 billion in military weapons and “tanks and helicopters for border security, ships for coastal security, intelligence-gathering aircraft, a missile-defense radar system, and cybersecurity tools.” Meanwhile, Trump — purportedly in an effort to balance the budget in 10 years — wants to slash government funding for programs for the poor, ranging from health care and food stamps to student loans and disability payments.

The military doesn’t have to worry about tightening its belt, however. No, the military’s budget — with its trillion dollar wars, its $125 billion in administrative waste, and its contractor-driven price gouging that hits the American taxpayer where it hurts the most — will continue to grow, thanks to Trump. This is how you keep the Deep State in power. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, the military will get more militaristic, America’s endless wars will get more endless, and the prospect of peace will grow ever dimmer.

The Queen held a minute's silence at Buckingham Palace at 16:00 BST. In a statement in Downing Street on Tuesday, the prime minister said the bombing had been a "callous terrorist attack" that targeted "defenceless young people". She said the security services believed they knew the attacker's identity but were not yet able to confirm it.

Number 10 later said Mrs May had been updated "through [Monday] night" and had phoned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at 04:00 BST to brief him. It is the worst terrorist attack in the UK since the 7 July bombings in 2005, in which 52 people were killed by four suicide bombers.

So-called Islamic State has said - via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram - it was behind the Manchester attack, but this has not been verified. The UK threat level has been judged to be severe for nearly three years - which means an attack is considered highly likely.

But in recent months the tempo of counter terrorist activity has been increasing with - on average - an arrest every day. After the attack in Westminster by Khalid Masood in March, police and security officials have been warning that further attacks were almost inevitable.

But they also believed that those were more likely to be low-tech involving knives or vehicles. The fact that the Manchester attack involved explosives will worry them. It may not have been at the level of complexity seen in Paris in 2015, when multiple attackers sent from Syria used guns and suicide belts, but it will still have required planning.