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Fox News carries a grisly AP story with the headline,

Man Accused of Stabbing, Decapitating Seatmate on Greyhound Bus in Canada

Accused??? That choice of verb seems a bit restrained to me under the circumstances.

A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses and officials said Thursday…
Authorities said a motive had not been determined. They declined to identify the suspect or the victim, and provided few details about the attack…
Fellow passenger Cody Olmstead said the man “dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body.” Olmstead said the man later taunted police and dropped the head in front of them…
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called the attack bizarre, but did not discuss details, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.

I know its politically incorrect to do so, and I certainly wouldn’t want to “jeopardize the investigation” but I can’t help wondering about the ethnic and religious background of the attacker. I’ve looked before, and I can’t recall any descriptions of this sort of wanton savagery except those perpetrated by Islamist radicals.
From Mindanao to Manitoba.