British police said that the fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker David Amess on Friday was a terrorist attack. The 69-year-old was stabbed repeatedly to death around midday at Belfairs Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea, an English town about 40 miles (62 kilometers) east of London. Amess, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party, was meeting with his constituents at the church. He had posted the details of the public meeting ahead of time on his website. Efforts to save him by paramedics were in vain and he died at the scene. The Metropolitan Police early Saturday said in a statement that early investigation “has revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism,” and described the attack as an act of terrorism. Amess had been a member of Parliament for Southend West, which includes Leigh-on-Sea, since 1997, and had been a lawmaker since 1983, making him one off the longest-serving …