Making fun of the terrorists

I wrote last Saturday how I was uneasy at the fashion for making light and even fun of the recent failed terrorist attacks, "I know laughing in the face of such a threat seems the clever and politically correct thing to do BUT I doubt if the same people will be laughing when we are mourning the dead.". I see that Ranting Stan has had similar thoughts and has criticized the usually incisive Matthew Parris for straying in this area with his article (which I originally missed) which included "terrorism is beginning to look a bit stupid. Those pictures of that idiotic and slightly overweight fellow with his clothes burnt off looked pathetic, undignified. It has occurred to even the meanest of intellects that concrete doesn't burn. And it isn't just the technical competence of alleged British terrorists that people are beginning to doubt: it's the whole jihadist idea. What world are they aiming for? Most British Muslims, just like most British everyone-else, think it's all pie in the sky: all rather silly. Yes, silly. Not "evil" as the red tops would have it. [...] We're not talking anything as clever as Evil here: we're talking Weird, we're talking Crackpot, we're talking Sad. The idea of using a Jeep to make a terminal explode was, in the latest lingo, a bit gay."

We are laughing now but I fear soon we will not.