At the start of this year’s Ramadan I expressed the hope that the death toll of this year’s Ramadan would be less than those of previous years. I cited Ramadan 2024’s death toll of over 800 as a benchmark and hoped that it would be less than that.
Sadly I was incorrect and my hope was misplaced. It’s looking like this year’s Ramadan will be an absolute humdinger of religiously inspired violence. According to the Religion of Peace site this year’s Ramadan has clocked up 1343 deaths from 134 separate attacks.
There is nothing like this level of violence occurring in other religions in the modern world. We don’t see Jews or Christians go wildly violent at Passover or Easter respectively but we do see too many Muslims go violent at Ramadan. Many of the targets for this violence are non-Muslims but we should not forget that Ramadan violence also afflicts those Muslims who are seen as ‘not Muslim enough’ or the ‘wrong’ sort of Muslim by other Muslims. Everyone suffers from the effects of Ramadan violence.
Ramadan is not yet over and there are approximately ten days left of this period to go. If Islam and its more violent followers have managed to clock up 1343 deaths already from multiple terror attacks, then I dread to think what the final death toll will be when this festival ends.
Having read your three recent pieces on Islam, (politics), worldwide; I do wonder if you have a little cognitive dissonance when it comes to asserting that there are good peaceful Muslims (at least if that is extended beyond the Ismailis and Ahmadhis who are both persecuted by the majority of Muslims). I have to ask where are these good peaceful Sunnis (and Shia to a lesser extent – some wear their Islam very lightly it has to be said).
Too often, it seems, that as soon as conditions permit violence is embraced which raises the questions as to whether this is inherent in Islam (it is) and as a result whether there really are orthodox Muslims who are intrinsically non-violent. I am no longer sure there are.
Don’t forget that on the last Friday of Ramadan, we in London are”treated” to the annual al-Quda hate-fest march with the usual death to Israel, death to America banners and chants and this year augmented with the now ritual Paliwankery joined with the fascist-left and the LGBTQWERTYPLUSVAT Turkeys4Christmas Whores4Hamas and Pimps4Palestine roof divers in tow.
Naturally, as last time, the useless politically compromised Plods, under instructions from our diminutive caliph Napoleon Khan, will claim that it’s good for “community relations”, but any objections to the death chants and calls for intifada will be ruthlessly crushed and denounced as that f*cking “phobia”, with them monstered as “far-right”.