Yesterday, the 22nd of May, was the sixth anniversary of the Islamic terror attack on concertgoers at Manchester Arena. In this attack, which was carried out by a Muslim man whose family had been given refuge in the UK despite the family being highly involved in Islamic extremism, 22 people were killed and over one thousand were injured.

The murderers were a team of two, the suicide bomber himself and his brother who built the bomb, which was a shrapnel explosive device designed to kill and maim over a distance of at least 66 feet. The bomb making brother is now serving 55 years in gaol for his part in the Manchester Arena Islamic Atrocity, one of the longest determinate prison sentences ever handed out by a British court.

I remember well the bombing itself and in particular the aftermath of it. I recall the grief of those who had lost loved ones to the actions of this Islamic savage and the tales of loss and disablement, both mental and physical, of those who survived this bombing.

I also find that distinctive memories of that time  have come into my mind about other aspects of the aftermath of the worst Islamic terror atrocity on British soil since the 7/7 attacks of 2005. There was the usual condemnation of the attackers from the political and religious establishment, including from the Muslim Council of Britain. The then Prime Minister, Theresa May, spoke strong words about the attack and called it an act of ‘sickening cowardice’.

But it did not take that long after the attack for the process of getting the public to start to forget the attack and in particular forgetting the motivations behind the attack started to get into motion. We had the lighting of memorial candles,the laying of floral tributes and the offering of ‘thoughts and prayers’ by the virtue signalling and the cynical. We saw a great deal of this sort of displacement activity following the Manchester Bombing, along with the usual vigils, one minute silences and the utterings in social and other media of idiots declaring that ‘Islam is a ‘religion of peace’ and that the bombing was ‘nothing to do with Islam’. This is all the usual ‘nothing to see here’, forget about those with violent interpretations of Islam guff that dominates the media and the political landscape following an Islamic terror atrocity.

But in Manchester there was a difference. Because Manchester has had a strong and vibrant musical history, parts of that history were co-opted to assist pushing the narrative that we should forget that Britain suffers from a serious problem of extremist Muslims wanting to kill Britons. This use of musical history was extremely apparent in the use of the Oasis song ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ at post attack vigils, tributes and fundraising concerts. The song became such a soundtrack to the managed public grieving events that I can’t listen to that song any more because of its associations with both the attack and the mostly supine response to the attack.

On the contrary we should look back in anger at the Manchester Bombing because there’s a damned lot that it is justifiable to be angry about.

We should primarily be angry at the bombers and the ideology that drove them to kill innocents. But we should also be angry at much more than just the bombers themselves.

We should be angry with and at:

The fact that these murdering savages were allowed into the UK in the first place despite the bombers family being deeply involved in Islamic extremism in Libya. Every single civil servant, Security Service Officer, every branch of the armed forces, lawyer, and pro-refugee NGO worker that assisted this family of extremists to enter the UK have the blood of innocent people on their hands.

The failures of the Security Service, MI5, who were observing the bomber and his family but classified them as ‘low risk’ of carrying out a terror attack. As the family of the bomber were deeply involved with and supportive of violent Islamic groups, I find it astonishing that MI5 could classify this family and the member who went on to bomb Manchester as ‘low risk’. If that’s who MI5 call ‘low risk’ I’d hate to see what they consider high risk to be.

The mosque that the bomber and his family attended which was found have employed an Imam who called for ‘armed Jihad’ against those who were against Islam in a sermon just ten days before the Manchester Arena attack.

The failure by the emergency services to properly coordinate response to the attack.

The culture of political correctness that hindered one of the security staff at the Arena from acting on his suspicions that a shifty looking Muslim wearing a backpack might be a terrorist. This man was so frightened of accusations of racism that it impeded the correct action, that of raising the alarm about what turned out to be a terrorist, that he should have taken.

The Prevent Scheme which failed to have any engagement with the family of extremists and was, as is too often the case, very much similar to a chocolate teapot in terms of usefulness.

Successive governments, going back to at least the John Major administration of the 1990’s, which have failed to understand the danger of Islamic extremism but who have instead turned a blind eye and allowed it to fester in multiculturalist-approved ghettoised Islamic communities. Weakness and a culture in government and administration of an unreal and naive attitude to Islamic extremism has been greatly to the detriment of all, both the majority population and the majority of Muslims who want nothing to do with religious extremism.

There’s much much more to be angry about when it comes to the Manchester Arena bombing and what’s written above is just the main low points of failure connected to 2017’s murderous Islam-inspired horror. We do those who died and were otherwise harmed in the Manchester attack a great disservice by taking part in the collective memory loss that the idea of ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ represents.

We should be angry about Manchester, it’s not unreasonable to feel anger at what happened after all the followers of a foreign death cult, which many of these Islamic extremist groups are, have committed an act of mass murder. Maybe there are some ways that we should not act on our anger, random vigilantism for example is unlikely to net any Islamic terrorists or supporters but is more likely to target some innocent and loyal to Britain Joe Mohammed from the local tyre shop and that would be morally wrong. But we should not put aside our anger at an ideology, that of Islamic extremism that regularly engages in mass murder nor the UK governments that have failed to approach the issue of Islamic extremism in a sufficiently robust way. If we want to see this problem tackled then we need to vote into office those who are most likely to engage properly with the issue of Islamic extremism. A future government that is committed to reducing the threat of Islamic terrorism and extremism should also root out those policies, processes and organisations connected to the ideology of multiculturalism that have inadvertently created the social conditions that have allowed Islamic extremism to survive and thrive.

I will not forget the Manchester Bombing nor who and what caused it.