AFTER BRUSSELS: IT IS YOU THEY WANT TO KILL

After Charlie Hebbdo, after November in Paris and now Brussels, after the flags flying in solidarity, the tricolour projected onto buildings and monuments, after the altered avatars declaring that we are all Charlie, Belgian or Parisians, after all the instant analysis and 24hr rolling news coverage, can the penny finally have dropped in the silence of the heart? It is you they want to kill. They want to kill you for everything you are and for everything you are not. If you are a Muslim, cuts no ice with them, at least not until you are willing to cut your kufr neighbours throat.

Foreign policy, Israel, Iraq, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, blasphemy, cartoons and anything else you want to add on, -Sykes Piquet perhaps, or the Crusades, - have nothing to do with it.  They want to kill you because you do not see the world as they do. They want to kill you because you dance and listen to music. They want to kill you because you laugh and sing in the bath and live your life with no thought of Allah. They want to kill you for drinking beer and wine and for being an atheist, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or Sikh, or Jew, - actually especially if you are a jew or the wrong type of Muslim. They want to kill you because you think freely for yourself and refuse to be a slave. They want to kill you, in short, because you are you and because God is great and he has ordained that you should be killed.


They are clear that this is war and the liberal and open society we live in is the enemy. Unless we grasp this fact with equal clarity and that appeasement of or coexistence with these theocratic fascist psychopaths is not possible it is a war we will eventually, and very slowly, lose. They must be killed and killed in sufficient numbers so that they cease to be a threat. This, I know is difficult for the liberal mind-set to accept, there is however no alternative.

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