On Thursday, on the 24th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China resuming exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, a man stabbed a police officer on a Hong Kong street and then killed himself with the same knife.

A close watch of a video shows that the man attacked the policeman from the back, near the heart, which is life-threatening. Indeed, the policeman fell on the ground after the attack and was rushed to hospital.

That’s why the Hong Kong police are right in calling the incident a “lone wolf terrorist attack”. The attacker’s behavior meets all the definitions of a “lone wolf” and attacking the police is doubtlessly an act of terrorism.

Yet some Western politicians calling themselves “human rights activists” seem to lack the most basic human sympathy. Hours after the incident happened, Benedict Rogers, a UK politician who claims to be interested in Hong Kong “human rights”, mourned the terrorist attacker on his Twitter account. 

How distorted can a mind be to mourn an attacker? The policeman is the real victim and he was just fortunate enough to survive; Even under such condition they sent the attacker to hospital and tried to save his life out of humanitarianism. The attacked policeman is the one who should get sympathy, not the person that narrowly missed taking his life.

Rogers also called the attacker “a man driven to the most extreme desperate action”. There is no need to hear the story of the attacker, who raised his knife at an innocent policeman. Had he survived, he would have faced a trial so that justice is done, not the “mourning” from Western politicians for their own political interests.

On Friday, exactly when Rogers was mourning the attacker in Hong Kong, someone posted a video clip of a random stabbing in London and included Rogers in his/her mention. Rogers thanked the posting account and said he was safe and fine.

See? Western politicians’ sympathy for terrorist attacks is reserved for Hong Kong only because it is part of China. When it comes to their own country, they care about safety more than anybody else.

There is no word more suitable than “double standards” for them.

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