Working Class Folk . . . .
Most working class folk are wrapped up in their own little world - relationships, morgages and consumerism being the order of the day. Still, do they (and civilians in general) deserve to be the legitimate targets for Islamic terrorism? To me they are targeting the sheep instead of the wolves, and most sheep will seek out a 'far right' shepherd who offers them easy solutions to complex questions. Therefore I agree with Blair, that a firm approach against the preachers of religious hate must be taken. I myself cannot help but feel slightly intimidated by any community which contains (an admitedly small proportion of) individuals willing to blow kids up to attain their ultimate reward in some mythical afterlife.
posted by Leighgionaire at 3:44 PM
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A post by Sol on a forum I visit -
In the last few days, something has begun to bother me. They were British citizens. They grew up here. They lived here. They were educated here. They worked here.
Yet, because they were angry about a government foreign policy decision, as many of us were, they chose to murder fellow British citizens en masse, in revenge for what they see as an attack against their muslim brothers and sisters.
It is the very fact that they see the people in Iraq, a place their family was not from, as their people, whilst the people they live with daily, as the enemy. It is as if they chose to remain a foreigner in an enemy land. Of course, in light of the murder of 23 children in Iraq yesterday, one has to begin to wonder if the notion of muslim brotherhood is a complete fucking sham anyway. Muslims have been murdering fellow mulims on masse too, yet they don't seem to care, certainly not enough to turn their back on a suburban Yorkshire life and take up arms to do someting about it.
If they had been from a troubled, occupied country, I would not be thinking like this.
The Taliban can oppress and denigrate fellow Musilms, yet they are seen as heroes. Saddam can gas fellow Muslims and murder his own people, yet the anger from British Islam was never directed at him like this.
All this week I have been arguing with colleagues who have been saying such reactionary things as "we should just send them all home" - a type of opinion I have long conditioned myself to despise. Yet today, a friend of mine, a notional "muslim", with a father who is a local councillor, who I've voted for on more than one occasion, said to me that Britain deserved it last week for oppressing Muslims in Iraq. He actually said the four bombers were martyrs. He said the same thing after September the 11th, as did others.
At this present moment, I feel as though my opinions have been wiped clean and whilst in this state of flux my viewpoint is up for grabs. It's not a pleasant feeling.
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