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longwayhome -> RE: Explosions At Manchester Concert (5/23/2017 5:38:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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They'll light candles and hold hands and chant about solidarity then it will happen again in a day or a week then they will release balloons and bring flowers and it will be ever so lovely and nice, then it will happen again and there will be Facebook tributes and tweets and everybody will say how much they care, then it will happen again and again and again, and nothing that matters will ever be done to stop it because of political correctness insanity
Oh, please. You nasty little racists haven't the first idea of how to deal with terrorist attacks nor the causes of them.
Because of your repulsive, small-minded racism, you bollocks up every chance of fighting terrorism as each chance presents itself. Making enemies of all Muslims, you render yourselves incapable of reaching out to the Muslims who hate Islamist fruitcakes in their midst. None of them will help you because you set yourselves against all of Islam - so they don't trust you. Instead, you give support to the Islamist terrorists' main argument - that *all* Christian westerners hate and revile *all* Muslims. You are exactly what the terrorists want - you play into their hands, and with unfailing, completely brainless, enthusiasm.
In short: not only do you do fuck all to remove the Islamist terrorist threat - you exacerbate it.
In saying all this, I might have a smidgeon - just a smidgeon - of respect for people like you if you were the sorts who'd actually put yourselves out there to fight terrorism. But you never do. You only ever talk about it, in the comfort of your armchairs. It won't be you who'll be fighting as soldiers abroad; nor as cops at home. *You* won't be risking your lives. Christ, are you people and the flatulence you keep producing, so utterly, completely, pointless.
Absolutely.
That is why the thousands of people who gathered in the centre of Manchester this evening cheered when speaker after speaker talked about solidarity and all parts of the community standing together to defeat terrorism. The crowd included all ages, races, faiths and political parties, all determined to be seen and send a message to Manchester and the world that all sections of the community stood against this kind of violence.
Typical amongst the statements was the Chief Constable who said that “We must all stand together and not let the terrorists defeat us, not let them stop us going about our daily business and create fear, and we must all live in harmony with each other as we stand together and defeat terrorism.”
We had years of terrorism linked to the Troubles in Northern Ireland which killed more people than Islamic extremism in almost every year of the seventies, eighties and most of the nineties. The people of both communities in Northern Ireland tired of conflict and turned on the terrorists instead of each other. The complete marginalisation of the terrorists and the futility in their continuing their actions was the key to enabling a negotiated settlement and an end to the violence.
The lesson of bringing the community together against the terrorists rather than persisting in turning against each other has not been entirely lost on the majority of the British public or politicians.
The people carrying out these acts are generally born and raised in the UK. Painful as it is to admit, they are our own, wherever their ideology originates. Yes we need intelligence and effective policing but more than anything we need the sort of public vigilance to defeat terrorism that comes from a community, united in its determination not to let the terrorists create conflict and exacerbate divisions.
We need more than ever to ensure that the terrorists are our enemies, not each other.
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