Regular readers of British news will be aware that there was yesterday an incident at Southgate Underground station in which a package exploded at the station. According to the Metropolitan Police, the incident was not terror related and was, as I predicted it might be, a short circuiting battery. The description of the incident by some claiming to be witnesses that there was a ‘whoomph’ sound and then a flash, for me gives credibility to the dodgy battery explanation.
I believe that there were a few minor injuries caused by the initial battery fire and the immediate reaction to it but what interests me is that this aggressive but very small fire had a very big impact on those near it. There were scenes of mass panic at the station among passengers when the battery caught fire near the top of an escalator with people ‘legging it’ according to witnesses who spoke to the press. This was, we need to be clear about this, a minor explosion, a short lived lithium fire that was extinguished quite quickly, yet because people are now so nervous about potential Islamic terror attacks passengers panicked much more than they needed to or should have done.
This excessive panic, at an incident that even at the height of the terror problems that were related to the Irish Troubles, would previously have been shrugged off to a large extent, is an indication of just how frightened people have become about Islamic terror. I must admit that the situation with regards the activities of some of the followers of the death cult known as Islam does induce fear and suspicion. I myself am guilty of initially thinking ‘Islam’ when I heard of the explosion at Southgate and I did speculate that it would be a logical target for an Islamic murderer because the Southgate area contains more than the average number of Jews. However in my defence, there have been in recent decades an awful lot of self detonating Muslims bringing death and destruction to many hitherto peaceful towns and cities, so thinking ‘Islamic savagery’ isn’t really that unusual.
A lot of people panicked at Southgate yesterday when previous to the problems of Islamic terror they may not have behaved in the same way. According to the press reports people were fleeing in terror because they thought that the explosion was an Islamic terrorist bomb and after Parsons Green, 7/7 and numerous similar Islamic attacks all over Europe, it’s very difficult to criticise people at Southgate station for being nervous.
The reaction to the Southgate explosion is not just an indication of how worried people are about Islamic terrorism, but also how the ‘religion of peace’ narrative that is being pushed by government is failing when it meets the brick wall of reality. In effect, the people feel great fear about the actions of the followers of an ideology that the Establishment are telling the populace is nothing to worry about. This narrative is shown to be false by the mass panic that is occasioned when something as small and as inconsequential as a battery fire occurs.
If people truly believed the ‘tiny minority of extremists’ line that is put out by various Islamopanderers, then they may have initially looked for other reasons, apart from Islamic terrorism, for the flash and the ‘whoompf’ that the dodgy battery created. It is this fear of a self detonating Muslim that I contend was behind the panic which in itself probably caused injuries at Southgate station. It is also a sign that at present there is a bit of a febrile atmosphere regarding Islamic terror and people are becoming more inclined to disbelieve the Establishment when they tell British subjects, ‘don’t panic’. If Islam truly was a ‘religion of peace’ then we would not see these panics following minor incidents like this, that we do see this type of panic shows quite plainly that people are very fearful of being killed or maimed in an Islamic terror attack.
