It is not OK to insinuate we deserved it.
It is not OK to look at the faces of young Australians such as Kirsty Boden and Sara Zelenak, full of innocence and promise, and argue that commentary about the way they were hacked to death, probably while trying to help others, is alarmist or sensationalist.
Nor is it OK to see the dozens of others killed and maimed in Britain, or Kai Hao, the newly married 36-year-old father who was shot dead in Brighton, as mere collateral damage in some justified and expected response to global factors.
It is not OK to blame Western political leaders for this bloodshed.
And it is not OK to do so without any word of sympathy for victims or condemnation of the terrorists who wielded the weapons.
Read the full article by Chris Kenny at The Australian (subscription only).