Dear Welsh politics: Political point scoring after a terrorist attack isn't a good look

I don't think she mentioned ISIS? This was more likely a reference to the far right attack in Charlottesville. Whilst speculation by public figures is probably not a good idea in such circumstances, in the heat of the moment it is difficult not to get caught up in the emotion of the situation. The public expectation is for a swift response from politicians; little time to consult on the right form of words. You really have to wonder why those who protested did so. If they considered it a personal attack, they should be examining themselves.

Leanne, asks the question - "Is this more right wing terrorism?" No, Leanne, like all recent terrorist attacks in Europe it was carried out by Muslim Islamic terrorists.I mean that isn't hard to reason. Like the National socialist Nazis they lean more towards the left.

Leanne asked a question!!

Using the exact same label [far right] to describe the terrorists in Barcelona as she does her political opponents in the Assembly, Leanne used real people's tragedy for political point scoring. It was both sloppy and dishonest. So what's wrong with using acts of Islamic terrorism to score points back home, you ask? How low can you go? I ask. This whole fiasco pretty much sums up current politicians in their bubble world, preferring slagging matches and name calling to open, honest and rational debate about the issues that need to be debated. UKIP's and the Conservatives "we're so deeply offended" BS doesn't do them any credit either.

I'm a member of Plaid and a fervent Welsh nationalist but Leanne Wood makes my skin crawl! She is the queen of the loony left and needs to get out of politics pronto!

Im on the centre-right in the political spectrum and have no qualms with what Leanne Wood has said. People who do might want to consider how far-right their views actually are.

I voted for Leanne six years ago and I've always got on well with her but her tweet is completely unacceptable. She has described the Tory government as far-right, she has described UKIP as far-right and she has, perplexingly, described a Hard Brexit as far-right. None of which is true. But to equate the terrorists in Barcelona with the far-right is is unacceptable. Go now, Leanne. Adam Price has my vote - in fact anyone but McEvoy would be better than loony lefty Leanne.

Describing IS as far-right is fine. It's what they are. But it's a red rag to a bull for people who have otherwise been labelled far-right. The kind of thing that has been done to Welsh nationalists for years.

Isis ideology is Fascist, Alt right ideology is Fascist. Fascist terrorism is "far right terrorism". It's not hard to work out. Nazis lean more towards the left? What a joke!

The tweet was a complete embarassment. A period of due reflection would surely be a good thing for a leader of a political party after such an atrocity: why on earth do they have to reach for the twitter immediately? It's just insane. Leanne's tweet is shocking in its basic lack of understanding of the threat now facing us in the West. It's just a knee-jerk left wing response in order to make cheap political points. ISIL are no more far-right as they are far-left. . They are completely beyond the usual political labels: they are a medieval death cult who want to destroy the west, left, right, centre: the whole shebang. End of. When will people wake up and understand this? As for the response of the Tories/UKIP: well, I have no truck with them at all, but Leanne has repeatedly referred to them as far-Right- so you can understand their anger with this.

It appears that since Rhun ap Iorwerth's chess move on the Eisteddfod field that all in opposition to Leanne Wood's leadership are looking for an opportunity to undermine her. Somebody, anybody tweeting is not really news unless the person tweeting is a high profile politician. Donald Trump shouldn't be on Twitter but he is. Would it be fair to call him far right after his inability to condemn the white supremacists in Charlottesville? With the Left and the Right now sabre rattling world events are warming up to a major conflict between these two polarities. ISIL will then be able to mop up who and what is left.

There were people lying dead on a pavement while she was tweeting this. How on earth did she think it was a good idea?

She needs to go. This was crass, insensitive and tasteless. Hwyl fawr Leanne!

The Kurds call themselves anti-fascists because they are up against these type of people. It's hate. Hate of gay people. Hate of Jews. Hate of women. Hate of democracy. Leanne Wood is right to point that out.

This article on Spiked magazine helps explain Leanne's response to Islamic terrorism. Rarely has the hypocrisy of the West’s ostensible liberals and leftists been as violently exposed as it has been this week ... http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/from-charlottesville-to-barcelona/

What a load of rubbishy comments! No wonder the nationalist cause goes nowhere in Wales: at the slightest provocation we fight amongst ourselves. Leanne Wood's comment was harmless and undeserving of the harsh criticisms levelled at it. The only criticism I have is for her use of the meaningless terms far left and far right; but who cares? She has been an excellent, energetic leader of Plaid Cymru which like most political parties is an alliance of persons with differing political views. I do not agree with everything she advocates, and neither would she agree with every opinion I hold; but to undermine her for simply stating a viewpoint on an atrocity which I have no doubt all of us abhor does no one any good. She has nothing important to apologize for.

Leanne should get off twitter and facebook some of her pronouncements are dead embarrassing for a party leader. Like other politicians she thinks she has to emote, rage or condemn issues that are current/ on trend without taking time out to think and which are nothing to do with them as they usually live 1000s of miles of away. It's just jumping on some bandwagon. Yep I can go online and say "my heart is with the people of Sierra Leone tonight " what bloody good will that do them? Anyway obvs not trendy to empathise with SL as not seen anythins on Social media with those poor people. Also Equating the far right with Isis was really stupid in this case. And why do people bang on about right or left as if it defines people's politics or campaigns, it too simplistic and idiotic to do so. Leanne has not got the intellectual capacity to be leader, or to work out why tweeting this glib nonsense was a bad idea

Good Ofnadwy/terrible. My thoughts are with all those affected (Sometimes less is more). Better Ofnadwy/terrible. Mis pensamientos están con los afectados Best Ofnadwy/terrible. Els meus pensaments estan amb els afectats

What if we had a nationalist leader in Wales , who instead of some pointless emoting said:" we have got to get to grips with this Islamist menace which is threatening all of us".? "Our christian values and heritage in the West is under attack and there is no point beating about the bush any more. The moslem community have got to do more to weed out this blind intolerance in their midst, and we must do much more to ensure that their young men being led astray like this are afforded a more hopeful and positive vision for their future. This has to be a two-way process of education and engagement." No, of course it's so much easier to go along with the liberal hogwash agenda of not confronting the truth and mouthing platitudes which mean absolutely nothing. And of course, fellow Jeremy Corby has just done the same by sacking sarah champion for daring to mention the huge elephant in the room- the systematic abuse of young white girls at the hands of muslim men in scores of English cities. The scale of this scandal which has been hushed up in a number of Labour controlled areas because of the racism card could well bring corbyn down. It truly is as bad as that.

really sad to see what's going on here. There is such a thing as a far right and there is such a thing as fascism and i don't want an independent Wales that embraces those sorts of views. I would prefer to succumb to being Anglicised

But the whole nub of the argument here is this attempt to equate ISIS with the far-right which is just complete nonsense and an insult to our intelligence. It's so obvious that this tweet sought to establish a political equivalence between the events in Charlottesville and the massacre in Barcelona. Of course, the far-right elements in charlotesville were completely odious and repugnant in their outright hatred for jews and black people. But these idiots do have a political agenda of sorts, whatever one may think of that agenda, i.e some form of white homeland in the south. Apparently, they want to promote this cause democratically. But ISIS are not a political far-right entity in the same way at all. They are not seeking a democratic mandate in any shape or form. They want to impose an Islamic Caliphate on the West which is a religious dictatorship based on sharia law. Not much elbow room there for homosexuals, women, children ,free speech, democracy or even music if it comes to that. Oh, and of course there won't be any space for christians there either. All based on their Holy Book. The one which commands all Muslims to persecute, cheat, exploit and kill the infidel wherever he or she is to be found. The spineless refusal of our mainstream politicians to face up to the magnitude of this evil, and rely instead on mealy mouthed platitudes is truly shocking. It just adds insult to injury to see the leader of Plaid Cymru joining in in such a thoughtless way. Leanne's summer reading list should perhaps read "Heretic"- a book written by a brave muslim woman about Islam and the dangers it poses to the West. She says that Islam needs a reformation similar to the protestant reformation instigated by martin luther. The West can help that process along. But it needs to stop pandering to Islam.

I think I smell a media bandwagon, to dis Plaid and get Leanne. We should not fall for it. Isis is a deeply reactionary organisation, and by any reasonable analysis that puts it on the far right. If that is a lable that UKIP and sections of the Tory party want to embrace let them, but don't attack someone for calling out what something is. As it was Barcelona is hosting a major gay event this week and it may have been premature to ask the question but it was a reasonable one, it wasn't immediately apparent that this was an ISIS inspired attack.

Leigh: can I respectfully suggest that you also look up this book: "Heretic" by Ayyan Hirsi Ali? She categorically states that ISIS ARE representative of Islam! That is the essence of the problem here. This is a Muslim woman who has been brave enough to honestly confront the cancer at the heart of Islam: this unthinking devotion to a prophet Mohammed, a self-confessed pedophile, warlord and mass murderer. She says that the Koran has to be drastically revised. This ridiculous liberal idea that "Oh we can't say that because it would hurt the sensibilities of Muslim communities" just infantilises this particular community since it basically presumes that they aren't mature enough to deal with the truth! What patronising nonsense..... Surely all communities, wherever they may be, should be honest enough to take a deep look at their own failings and shortcomings and seek to address those shortcomings?

Whatever anyone's take on Leanne Wood's tweet is, it has generated coverage in the UK press and media for her, Plaid Cymru and by association the aim of an independent Cymru. Publicity that wouldn't exist but for that tweet. The observation of some might be that it's the "wrong" sort of publicity. But the reality is that we're never likely to get the "right" sort of publicity from a press and media that is united in it's opposition to our independence from England.

A very good critique by Ifan Morgan Jones "Leanne Wood has been criticised by the Conservatives and UKIP for a Twitter comment calling ISIS ‘far-right’ following yesterday’s terrible attacks in Barcelona that left 14 dead. Ofnadwy / terrible. Is this more far right terrorism? My thoughts are with all those affected.https://t.co/REkCs6HNgy — LeanneWood (@LeanneWood) August 17, 2017" other than I dont believe she did anything wrong - the political point-scoring is entirely by the Tories and UKIP (caught a raw nerve did she???) - they seem very protective of the "far right" ... are they desperate to wear that label? Ifan's points about ISIS are very valid - they are fascist - is Andrew RT Davies defending them? What a disgrace!

It's a bandwagon. The Mike Parker and Arfon Jones treatment.

She should apologise for speculating at the time without knowing the facts. Very irresponsible. I don't have much of a problem with her calling ISIS far right, i see her point. however it is overly simplifying things. I don't think the left right axis is particularly helpful in describing these terrorists. Does she think there are far left terrorists? Was stalin far right or far left? Etc etc.

A quick theological point to contest this argument that the Old Testament is also full of murderous violence. The Old Testament is superceded by Jesus: so Jesus is the final and definitive version of God for Christians. There's no need to "revise" the Bible- as Jesus Christ has already revised it! Now compare that with Islam: where the devotees still worship Mohammed uncritically despite his murderous lifestyle. That's why the Koran needs to be revised urgently. Mug up on any number of recent social surveys in the uk which display an ambivalence, and that's putting it kindly, amongst an alarming number of Muslims towards Islamic violence.

She made a right mess up. She gave the right more reason to tar all muslim as ISIS. She accidently called muslims nazis or islam fascist and made herself look impulsive and opportunist. As another thought, the ignorance of islam being shown is staggering and it's all because of this kind of hysteria. Want to know about ISIS? Ask a muslim scholar or imam but be prepared to listen and not try and make it fit your own politics. It's complicated and she has tried to simplify it. She had good intentions but it's not helpful.

Correction Muslims do not worship Mohammed.

As a point of interest: here are the 4 amendments that Muslim Author Ayan Hirsi Ali suggests as part of the much needed Islamic Reformation: 1. All Muslim clerics need to forego the status of the Quran as the last and immutable word of God and the infallibilty of Muhammed as the last divinely inspired messenger. 2.They need to clearly move away from the overwhelming emphasis on the afterlife over the here and now. (Why do you think that so many young Muslim men are so willing to sacrifice themselves in these modern attacks in the West)? 3.Sharia law has to be clearly subordinate to the laws of the nation-states where Muslims live 4. They need to disavow completely the notion of Jihad as a literal call to arms against non-muslims and those muslims they consider as apostates of heretics.

Welsh and Muslim: your statement is a complete red herring. The 4 amendments are not my sentiments:they have been made by an award-winning female Muslim. Would you argue against them?