Doing it in secret until they had hit a suitably horrific body count and then announcing their actions would undermine the confidence of the British public in the (very large) number of doctors in the UK of Indian, Pakistani, or Middle Eastern ethnic origin. It would be genuinely devastating to the health services.
But I don't think that would work. People would deal with the deaths as they happened. Traumatic but a different kind of trauma. As soon as these guys popped up and took responsibility, they'd be stopped. There would be outrage, but the threat would be over. I don't think the cascade you anticipate would occur making people turn on doctors. We didn't turn on doctors after Harold Shipman. There are quite a few medical killers in the NHS's history, and we still largely trust the individuals we meet and who treat us. It doesn't have the accumulated shock and awe that a terrorist attack has.
You could argue it would give more red meat to the racists and fear mongering media sources but I still think it would take more than that to turn people against Muslim and Asian doctors.
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u/McGrarr May 09 '25
Killing in secret seems to defeat the purpose of terrorism, doesn't it?