Yesterday, the 22nd of May, was the anniversary of two tragedies that could have been avoided. These tragedies did not need to happen and they only happened because the ideology of Islam and its followers have been indulged and facilitated by successive governments. It was governments who let this happen and it is governments who should have put our security ahead of the rights of Muslims and the position of Islam in our society.
Unfortunately, governments of various stripe, did nothing practical following these tragedies to halt the spread of this Islamic ideology, or repair the damage that this ideology has already done. All the British people got from the governments of David Cameron and Theresa May was more of the same Islamopandering and appeasement that had brought us to this point. Maybe government had the vain hope that somehow being nice to Islam and acceding to its demands would prevent Muslims from killing us? However, it is a policy that has failed, as all appeasement policies are doomed to fail. A bully, which is what Islam is, does not change because they are placated with goods or land or privileges, it just encourages the bully to demand more from the person or entity that they are bullying.
The first tragedy was the 2013 murder, by two Islamic savages of a British soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby. He was murdered in a gun, knife and vehicle attack by two Nigerian-heritage converts to Islam near Fusilier Rigby’s military base in South Woolwich in London. It was a murder that shocked the world and also opened up many people’s eyes to the danger that Islam and its increasingly demented followers pose to the United Kingdom. Unlike the killings of British soldiers during the Irish Troubles, the murder of Lee Rigby was not a political killing of a type which the Irish Republicans carried out, it was different, it was murder in the name of religion. We’ve seen British soldiers killed on British streets before, but these killers came from a source that could be understood if not excused and which was tied up in the history of the nations that make up the British Isles. Lee Rigby’s murderers, and the motivation for the savages who murdered him, did not arise from our own history or histories, both the ideology that drove these savages and the savages themselves were recently imported. We are stuck with our history, both the good bits and the bad bits. We cannot avoid the ripple effects of decisions made by long dead kings, generals, administrators and clerics. But, we could have avoided importing and facilitating the savagery or the savages that killed Fusilier Rigby.
Yesterday was also, co-incidentally the first anniversary of another highly avoidable tragedy, the Manchester Bombing. This attack that took the lives of 22 people, mostly young people with the youngest victim being eight years old, was deliberately aimed at the most vulnerable in our society.
It was carried out by a Muslim suicide bomber who had attended mosques that preached extremism, theological fascism and hatred for Britain and whose family had been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. This murderous Islamic savage had been given every advantage and chance that living in an advanced society could give him. Britain’s taxpayers provided him with an education and his family with support. This savage was given the gift of being physically and spiritually free in a manner that would have been impossible for him in many other parts of the world. This savage repaid what Britain gave him by murdering our children. He set off a bomb at Manchester Arena following and Ariana Grande concert killing people for no other reason than the victims were ‘kufar’.
The Manchester mass murderer was, like the murderers of Fusilier Rigby, not coming from our own history. He didn’t kill British children because of some motivation coming from within the culture, history or polity of the constituent parts of the British Isles, again this was an imported savage and imported savagery that murdered 22 people. The Manchester bombing was avoidable. Someone somewhere ticked the box that let this savage and his family into the United Kingdom. This savages family did not need to be here, there were few sane reasons, apart from misplaced altruism on the part of those who govern us, for the Manchester bomber’s family to be in the UK. We have no use for such people and we certainly have no use for an ideology that says ‘kill your neighbour’ rather than ‘love your neighbour’.
Both the Rigby and the Manchester murders did not need to happen. They were not tragic confluences of circumstances of the sort that cause civil engineering disasters or transport accidents, these were deliberate acts by Muslims. These particular Muslims made a specific individual decision, based in large part on the theology and practise of Islam, to indiscriminately kill. We did not need to import either the people who think this way or the ideology that underpins this type of mindset. We could have kept it out and should have kept it out. There was no need for Lee Rigby or 22 young people to die at the hands of Muslims, it is only the presence of Islam that caused them to be murdered. I can’t help but wonder if there was no Islam here then would these murders or murders like them ever have occurred or even be able to be thought of? My guess would be not. We have imported savagery in the form of an ideology that has a complete disrespect for human life, which shackles the mind of the believer with chains of hatred for non Muslims, and which enforces itself, both on the believers and the wider society, with violence or the threat of violence. If we had not imported such savagery then many more people who have died in recent and not so recent Islamic attacks, may have gone on to live full and useful lives. Now that really is a tragedy that really should have been stopped before it started.
