I have asked a similar question before and I will ask it again.
Who was behind the attack on the (sic) Twin Towers in New York?
Who was behind the London bombings?
Who murdered Lee Rigby?
Who beheaded a Manchester taxi driver who was taking aid into Syria?
Who bombed the Manchester Arena?
Who butchered little girls at a dance class in Southport?
And who carried out the attack at a music festival in Israel which claimed around 1300 lives, AND gleefully filmed themselves doing it?
None of these horrific atrocities were carried out by Jews, Indians or Chinese.
In Manchester we have a thriving Jewish community, many of whom are based around Cheetham Hill. To my knowledge they have never committed any acts of violence towards any of its' citizens, nor have they tried to change our way of life, in stark contrast to elements who have allied themselves to the Palestinian flag.
I am not Jewish myself, but I know this, if I had a choice to sit on a train alongside a Jew with a suitcase or a Muslim with a rucksack, you may be able to guess my choice.
Extrapolate this to the situation in the middle east and whose account of what is taking place there do I believe?
You can probably guess that too.
So let’s untangle this masterpiece of “logic.”
You’ve basically built an argument that says “Some violent people happened to be Muslims, therefore all Muslims are violent.” By that standard, should I assume all Christians are cross-burning racists because the KKK existed? Or that all Americans blow up federal buildings because of Timothy McVeigh? Or that every Norwegian owns a manifesto because Anders Breivik wrote one? Or every Jew is a child killer because of the IDF? Come on. If we played this game properly, we’d have to cancel half of humanity.
History lesson lad… Terrorism isn’t a religion. It’s a tactic. Extremists grab whichever flag, scripture, or grievance helps them recruit. The IRA weren’t quoting the Quran. The Lord’s Resistance Army weren’t humming nasheeds. The Ku Klux Klan weren’t exactly breaking their Ramadan fast. Every major faith has had blood spilled in its name, the difference is whether we blame the individuals or smear billions of innocent people who share a label.
And your train analogy? Classic. “If I see a Jew with a suitcase or a Muslim with a rucksack…” Mate, the most dangerous thing in a rucksack is usually yesterday’s gym socks or a half-smashed chicken tikka wrap. Meanwhile, some of history’s most prolific terrorists wore suits and ties, not backpacks.
Then there’s this line about “Jews never committing violence in Manchester.” Great. Do you want a medal? Nobody sensible thinks Jewish Mancunians are plotting in Cheetham Hill. But applying collective innocence to one group while collective guilt to another is hypocrisy on steroids. If you genuinely believe “I’ve never seen them do violence here, so globally they’re blameless,” then by the same token every Muslim neighbour who’s never blown anything up should be your personal ambassador for peace. Spoiler
Alert… that’s literally 99.9999% of them.
Blaming 1.9 billion people for the actions of a few nutjobs isn’t bravery, it’s intellectual laziness. Terrorism is real, it’s horrifying, and it must be condemned, but turning it into a blanket license for prejudice isn’t fighting extremism, it’s feeding it.
The club you support is owned by a Muslim. Crazy how you can support a club owned by Muslims but still be an Islamophobic turd. Cognitive dissonance must be exhausting?
And about Palestine… your ‘analysis’ is basically: ‘I side with the people who look like me.’ That’s not politics, that’s toddler-level tribalism with a fresh coat of bigotry. You’re basically picking teams like a 4-year-old choosing crayons. Meanwhile, your blind hatred has you rooting for actual child-killing maniacs. We’re talking 50,000 Palestinians slaughtered — 70% women and kids — and European doctors reporting children executed with bullets to the head. But somehow, when it’s Israel doing it, you suddenly forget how to make it about race or religion. Convenient. You’re less of a thinker and more of a fanboy for genocide.
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