What does it say about Great Britain that within hours of a
brutal murder, everyone turns so quickly on their neighbours? Why is it that if
a white man goes on a shooting rampage we single him out as a lone nutter, but
if it is done by a man with dark skin and who might have said something Islamic
it is terrorism and we must all be afraid?
Have you stopped sending your children to Catholic schools
because of the extensive child abuse committed by Catholic priests? Have you
stopped your daughter going to art classes because of Rolf Harris’ arrest? Do
you judge white Yorkshire men by the acts of the Ripper or British people
because of the horrific acts of oppression in India during the occupation?
It’s incredible how quickly people are prepared to shut
their doors on their neighbours. How this is a terror attack instead of a
brutal murder seems to me an inflammatory act by a weak and flailing government.
Children are systematically stabbing each other over postcode territories, but
we don’t start shutting out our nieces and nephews; they are not classes as terrorists
although they are using terror to get what they want.
To those of you who are liking
the RIP Woolwich Soldier page on facebook, please look carefully at who you are
joining with. This poor nameless man was murdered a few hours ago. It is not
fair that his death is being hijacked by racist nutcases who think that being
British is synonymous with religion and skin colour. Nick Griffin has already
asked people to wear Help for Heroes badges to ‘resist Islamist terror’ instead
of supporting Help for Heroes to HELP soldiers! Hate doesn’t help anyone and it
is disgraceful that a wonderful charity is being used to imply that soldiers
are standing up for racism. This poor man’s family now has to stand by helpless
while hundreds of thousands tell his son to Rest In Peace whilst preaching
hate. How can he rest in peace with this tirade of violence from the mouths of
strangers?
Muslims aren’t terrorists and, if these two men considered
themselves Muslims, it is as irrelevant as it would have been if they were Christians.
I know Catholics who do not consider paedophile priests to be Christians and we
seem on board with that – my Catholic friends have never felt the need to
apologise for their community and have never been shut out because of the acts
of their religious leaders. Why should we see these murderers as Muslims? Islam
is a religion, just like Christianity, that can be manipulated to violence or
to beauty. Why do we see two men committing a murder for their own twisted
reasons and blame an entire religion?
This is how it starts every time. The acts of the few stains
the many because, if we are honest with ourselves, we realise that (just like
has happened before) it only takes one act of horror and barbarity by The Muslims to make us believe that all
whole of ‘them’ are against the whole of ‘us’.
We have to be better than that.
