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Lucylastic -> RE: Didn't a couple of Islamic nutcases plot to kill the PM? (12/7/2017 9:24:36 AM)
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ORIGINAL: longwayhome
Even Boris Johnson said today that Islamic terrorism poses no existential threat to the UK.
Far more people every year were killed each year in Europe by terrorists in the 1970s than are being killed now.
It's not that there is no threat or that we are not taking the threat very seriously - that's why people are being tracked and arrested - but you have to get it into some kind of proportion. The deaths we have had in this country are tragedies for those involved and call for the best policing and intelligence.
Anti-terrorist yes. Anti-muslim no.
This is the UK and not Syria. Pretending that we face the same threat as people in Iraq and Afghanistan would be disproportionate compared to those who have truly had to contend with a very real existential threat to their whole way of life.
Sowing the seeds of community mistrust and hatred is exactly what the terrorists want to do. I live and work alongside muslims every day of my life. They are no threat to me, any more than being Irish was a threat in the 1970s and 1980s.
People like to have a focus for their hatred of the other. Hating and/or distrusting all muslims in your community is exactly what the terrorist organisations want to encourage by high profile attacks. We don't have to succumb to this, especially when the vast majority of muslims in the UK deplore Islamic terrorism as much as any other Brit.
Do you feel very threatened by muslims, Awareness? I thought you were a hard-man.
Or, just like Mr Trump, do you just enjoy bashing a much reduced ex-colonial power, who also poses no threat to you or your way of life?
pretty much this, entirely.
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