So while I was sitting there aghast feeling slightly uncomfortable as banners sallied across my TV screen screaming, death to all---- or asking for the beheading of------, there appeared for the world to see a young man dressed as a suicide bomber.
Then the day before we had that fool found not guiltily in the high court for defending his right of free speech, every time that man opens his trap, you hear, you see, his ignorance, his fear as they feed off each other.
Any ways I got to thinking, while I absolutely defend our right of free speech it has to be tempered with responsibility.
My thoughts about the Danish editor who allowed those images to be printed,--- if ever an act of racism, of religious intolerance was to be seen that article was it.
Just what did the Danish Media think they were doing, of course every right thinking Muslim was insulted and their anger is well justified.
However that does not condone the hijacking of that anger, of those sensitivities by a militant group of people hell bent on showing and voicing their hate of our western ways.
It suddenly occurred to me there's this young man dressed as suicide bomber on a crowded London street but I don't remember seeing anyone pin his arms to his side while another pumps seven bullets in to his head.
A young Brazilian man who hadn't a clue he was going to die that day who was wearing nothing more sinister then a shirt or jacket, who looked nothing like a suicide bomber, who because of the utter incompetence of certain members of our secret services and police force because of that young man's innocent actions, by leaving his flat, wound up dead on the floor of a tube train.
God alone knows how that family has suffered but they too I feel have had their views, their grief hijacked by their own government spokes people with their own agenda.
Yes it's right that those people involved in the tube shooting are held to account but the hypocrisies of the Brazilian government sickens me, they claim not to understand how something like this could have happen in a modern age,---- yes criticise us, berates us, but remember not so long ago children were being taken off their streets and executed by their Police death squads. Support and help this grieving family but let it be their own.
So there is our pretend suicide bomber, alive thank goodness yet not arrested. I have no doubt there wasn't a single police officer who dearly would not liked to have arrested him but were told to hold back because of the political antics of our government.
So Omar, I think his name is, goes on TV and apologises for his actions. It is right that every child, regardless of the deed, be allowed to say sorry and I suppose the same rules applies to people like Omar.
It is right that the people who took Omar to one side and said "look here, your doing a 2 ½ year parole of a five year jail sentence for drug offences, are you crazy, say sorry," (five years! this guy wasn't selling street corner splifs).
How much tolerance have we to show Omar, what price does he put on his freedom, what faith do we have in his promise of good behaviour, his apologies.
Hopefully this young man will turn into a wise one, able to show compassion to all but do I think he should be arrested, you bet but don't worry Omar if you are, you can be safe in the knowledge your arrest hasn't happened because it was the right and lawful thing to do to you.
I don't profess to understanding all the Koran teachings but having had it in my house for many years and having read it cover to cover I believe nothing in it translates in to the actions or views of Omar and other protesters that day.
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