But, throughout their history, Spaniards have shown a tendency to polarise – often with murderous results.
And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.
It is frustrating for those who labour to recall Nazi racism and its murderous results to be told they are making Zionist propaganda.
After WWI this territory was taken from Turkey and given to Baghdad by the British, with the understanding the Kurds would be granted substantial autonomy, a promise not kept, with murderous results.
A few pages into the Bible we see Cain succumbing to triggers of jealousy and desire with murderous results.
According to the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, between 1990 and 2010 right-wing extremists carried out 145 murderous attacks, resulting in 348 deaths, 168 of which resulted from the Oklahoma City bombing.
Minor, neighbourly annoyances escalate into murderous conspiracies, resulting in a war between the two households that's slightly more extreme than the one from Bad Neighbours.
Act four was US support for the resulting murderous dictatorship.
In 1992 N.W.A. producer and sometime rapper Dr. Dre released the California rap scene's most influential and definitive record, The Chronic; its marriage of languid beats and murderous gangsta mentality resulted in phenomenal sales.
The Israeli military confirmed the killing, saying in a statement that the sheik was "responsible for numerous murderous terror attacks, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, both Israeli and foreign".
But there is room for scholarly inquiry into the working of the murky state machinery that led to that outcome to determine whether the tragedy was principally the result of murderous design or culpable neglect.
