One of the problems with heavily patriarchal, honour based cultures is that they can create individuals who are psychologically motivated to solve all problems with violence. Any affront, no matter how slight or how justifiable can result in male members of these patriarchal honour based cultures to explode into furies of over the top violence. For a man from one of these cultures to be refused service or entry to a nightclub because they are behaving like an arsehole, such slights are perceived as a direct attack on the person’s masculinity.

The man who drove his car into a nightclub in Gravesend in Kent because he was angry at being refused entry by the door staff, Mohammed Abdul, appears to be a product of a violent, patriarchal, honour based backward culture. When I read this story and saw the video of his attack it is plain to see that it is a complete miracle that this Islamic savage did not kill anybody. Abdul’s act was not a spur of the moment one, or one which could be explained by a temporary loss of mental control, it was a deliberate planned act. It was an act of outrageous and disproportionate violence and the savage Abdul fully deserves the 28 years gaol that he has been given after being convicted of attempted murder. Without a doubt this savage has demonstrated intent to kill and used his vehicle as a weapon with which to do so.

Abdul the savage had plenty of time to reconsider his position before embarking on a rampage that he carried out with murderous intent. He could, as civilised people would have done and just gone away, shrugged his shoulders and found somewhere else to go for the evening. But, this man is a savage, from a savage culture that creates men who feel that the slightest ‘humiliation’ such as being refused entry to a club, requires answering with lethal violence. I’ve been chucked out of or been refused entry to lots of clubs and venues in my time either because I’ve been with some rather lairy mates or have been drunk or have had shoes or other clothing that don’t fit with the club’s dress code. It’s annoying when this happens, but these refusals do not demand that I retaliate with over the top violence. However the difference between myself and Abdul the savage, is that I am civilised and come from a culture that doesn’t place so much store on a requirement to avenge the slightest ‘offence’ Abdul and the culture he comes from and the culture he hails from, is about as far from what could reasonably be called civilised as one could get.

Whilst not all those from Muslim backgrounds behave in the shocking and frankly murderous way that Abdul has behaved, there seems to be a propensity for this culture to produce men who go off violently at the slightest provocation. I would put that down to a number of factors. The first is, like it or not, Islam’s theology is violent and unlike the violence contained in the Tanakh (Old Testament) Islamic theological violence is not merely a record of violence in the past, it is instead an encouragement for contemporaneous violence. The second factor is that violent patriarchal cultures like Islam produce people who not only believe that they have a right to engage in violence if they are slighted in any way, but also there is no need to limit said violence in a proportional manner. The third factor I believe is that too many of those from violent, backward, patriarchal societies struggle to fit in with more advanced and equitable ones such as the United Kingdom. They therefore are ill equipped to solve problems and conflicts in the way that we would solve them, for example with having proportional violence as a very last resort. Because of that they fall back on their exaggerated sense of ‘honour’, which is about all they have and ‘go off’ in the manner that this savage Abdul has done.

It is a miracle that the actions of this savage did not result in the deaths of innocent people. The judge was completely correct to hand down a sentence of 28 years and although Abdul the savage may only serve half or two thirds of it, at least he is off the streets for at least a decade.