The latest
attacks in Paris are one of the most sickening things that the World has been
forced to witness in recent times.
ISIS, ISIL,
Islamic State, Da’esh, The Artist Formerly Known as ISIS, or whichever name
they are now supposedly going by, accepted responsibility for the acts.
It may not
have been them who were responsible, but they want us to think it was. Somebody
who is universally despised claims they did something heinous in order to make
everybody hate them even more. This is like Phil Collins claiming he wrote The
Birdie Song. And The Macarena.
In fact, if
ISIS truly want to make as many people as possible hate them and spread
Islamophobia to fuel the legitimacy of their “war”, all they need to say is: “You
know all those phone calls you get that are just automated messages telling you
you could have been mis-sold PPI? That’s us, that is.”
Possibly
worse than the terror is the unending stream of far-right bullshit we’ve been
subjected to ever since.
Regular
readers of this blog will be aware of my boss, “Toby”, and his penchant for
extreme views.
“We need to
close our borders and deport all Muslims immediately,” he raged yesterday.
Interesting.
There are approximately 2.7 million Muslims in Britain, almost half of whom
were born here. Where does he suggest we deport them to, exactly?
In any case,
people can choose to live wherever they want and should be free to do so
without the ludicrous “Schroedinger’s immigrant” claims that they’re
simultaneously stealing our jobs and milking our benefits system.
“Their
religion should be banned,” he further raged.
I’m no fan
of organised, fairytale book-worship, as you know, but again it’s down to
personal choice. If anything should be banned, it’s the bigotry of arseholes
like Toby.
The number
of Facebook posts I’ve seen echoing similar sentiments have given me a good
excuse to cull some people I really have no desire to be friends with.
The people of
this country who spout “send them back” rhetoric are the real extremists and it’s
those who we should be looking to eradicate.
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