RisingPhoenix
Club Legend
Sorry I have no time for this today.
http://m.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30479306
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/illridewithyou-hashtag-takes-off-following-siege/5969102
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-social-media-support-Muslim-community.html
Admirable and noble sentiments - no question about that.
But what about the dead victims and there families?
What about the poor buggers who have just lived a 16 hour nightmare?
Where is the hashtag for them?
Sadly it appears that there is no shortage of people out there whose first instinct to this tragedy is not to express concern for the dead or there families or concern for the potential of follow up attacks now one bloke has taken the leap, but rather to express support and 'solidarity' for the group from whom this outrage has emenated.
Not only that, there also appears a wilful desire amongst some to bury there heads in the sand that this could be anything but a 'lone kook'....#Hoddle St etc etc.
This obscenity was clearly the handiwork of a disturbed individual inspired by the medieval theology of ISIS and fundamentalist Islam, and it would be folly in the extreme to drop our guard in some attempt to be politically correct and prove our multicultural credentials - by god we prove that every single day I would of thought.
I realise there may be an element of being proactive and trying to get a lid on things before they blow up and I appreciate that, but bottom line the "Muslim community" isn't the victim this morning - it is not about them.
As I said, if there is support to be had, let it first be focused toward the families of the dead and the traumatised.
Anything else is an insult at this point.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/illridewithyou-hashtag-takes-off-following-siege/5969102
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-social-media-support-Muslim-community.html
Admirable and noble sentiments - no question about that.
But what about the dead victims and there families?
What about the poor buggers who have just lived a 16 hour nightmare?
Where is the hashtag for them?
Sadly it appears that there is no shortage of people out there whose first instinct to this tragedy is not to express concern for the dead or there families or concern for the potential of follow up attacks now one bloke has taken the leap, but rather to express support and 'solidarity' for the group from whom this outrage has emenated.
Not only that, there also appears a wilful desire amongst some to bury there heads in the sand that this could be anything but a 'lone kook'....#Hoddle St etc etc.
This obscenity was clearly the handiwork of a disturbed individual inspired by the medieval theology of ISIS and fundamentalist Islam, and it would be folly in the extreme to drop our guard in some attempt to be politically correct and prove our multicultural credentials - by god we prove that every single day I would of thought.
I realise there may be an element of being proactive and trying to get a lid on things before they blow up and I appreciate that, but bottom line the "Muslim community" isn't the victim this morning - it is not about them.
As I said, if there is support to be had, let it first be focused toward the families of the dead and the traumatised.
Anything else is an insult at this point.
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