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Learning of the deaths of British aid workers killed in Gaza yesterday, one particularly nasty troll chimed, “Tell us their names, so we can actually clarify if they’re British or not.”

Succumbing to their ravaging hate, they hoped the dead would be a Mohammed or Fatima, so they could dehumanise them entirely. But, instead, they turned out to be a John and two James.

“All lefties and won’t be missed,” hissed another, upon learning of their erroneous assumptions, “How about they help people in the UK.”

But one of these men previously served in the British Armed Forces. Usually the very definition of a patriot to these repulsive misanthropists, always ready to pounce on the misfortune of others.

“These so-called charity workers were all adults who freely chose to place themselves in danger,” added one more, unsympathetic to their plight.

Here do the haters reveal themselves. There is no morality which underpins their contempt. It is not about right or wrong. It’s only about whose side you’re on.

Yet he has not attempted the steep path. And what can make you know what the steep path is? It is to free a slave, to feed at a time of hunger an orphaned relative or a poor person in distress. And to be of those who believe, and who urge one another to patience and compassion. Those are the companions of the right.

Quran 90:11-18