Oh, how we laughed
This is a fairly normal thing to see, is it not? A cheerful, happy soul, sharing a few ales and having a good old laugh with his mates. Rumour has it that this cheerful fellow was not averse to the odd joint of marijuana or indeed the odd random and unattached coupling with young ladies of his acquaintance. But as his life went on, he changed somehow. Certainly, the ales have stopped. The marijuana has almost certainly also fallen by the wayside, and coupling is now a very serious business for this man as he has gone forward in life. And whereas most people are comfortable with the idea of acquiring a degree of gravitas and not living the life of a wastrel, there are certain limits to the morality you can choose to espouse when you have lived a fast and loose lifestyle.
Indeed, most people would struggle to espouse a strict morality, especially when applied to the lives of others, when they themselves have enjoyed life to the full. This is why David Cameron, I believe, remains mostly silent on the issue of cocaine. And I have a certain respect for those who embrace a life of self-sacrifice and service as a penance for a totally misspent youth.
But it seems to me that there is a certain failure to appreciate one’s own hypocrisy when you are of a fascist disposition. Jacqui Smith used to enjoy the sobriquet of “Jacqui Spliff” and yet she was happy to be complicit in the re-criminalising of cannabis now. And this young man, now somewhat older, is quite happy to deny everyone the freedoms he so casually enjoyed in his youth. Shamelessly, he now extols the virtues of a strictly Shari’ah lifestyle, where no-one should be allowed the harmless pleasures of drinking beer, ogling scantily-dressed young ladies or the occasional joint of cannabis. Indeed, he seems to have become rather dour of demeanour and I’m not sure that people are actually allowed to laugh in his presence.
But even if you can bypass your curiosity as to how such a “lad” could have become a dour preacher of fundamental religion, even if you can contain your annoyance at the shameless hypocrisy of someone who fully enjoyed his youth and now wants to deny others the exact same enjoyment, even if you can only marvel at someone who was once clearly completely “integrated” into British society separating himself to the extent that he now calls for its demise, you can’t help but wonder what curious turns his life must have taken – and how many lives have taken those curious turns.
What is it about the religion of peace that makes so many of its adherents so militant and so extreme? What does it offer people who have led “normal” lives that makes them feel that cruelty and intolerance is what we should be striving for? I’ve met Muslims all around the world, and they’ve struck me as no different to any other artificial grouping of people: some were lovely, some were indifferent, some were deeply unpleasant. But no other grouping I’ve seen ever turns a young man like the chap above into one of these:
I've sowed my wild oats, so I'm OK. The rest of you? Well, you can all, quite literally, go to hell.
So, what’s going on?
TJW is an itinerant blogger who lives in East Angular. He grew up as a fascist, mellowed into a Tory and was converted to anarchism in his middle age by the Devil's Kitchen.
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I wonder how he is able to accept benefits from the state when those benefits surely come from the taxes of the British people…including British soldiers I would have thought. Is he not therefore accepting blood money? Can his conscience accept this?
Brilliant spot, Thadders. Such hypocrites!
Very kind of you, Ms Raccoon, to compliment my humble efforts when you purvey such incisiveness!
I think christianity has a lot to answer for………..and let’s think, what other fundamentalist type religions also provide the basis for such hate against humanity…….turn to zion……??????
Isn’t John Carey spouting on about only letting christian immigrants into the UK as a means of population control……WTF???
Blink,
Yep, that’s about right, those Women’s Knitting Circle suicide bombers from the local Methodist Chapel are really causing mayhem on a world-wide stage. And those pesky Choir Boys from the C of E.
Don’t forget the Jews. It’s always the Joooooooos!
EK
do you know your history???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEKuGcmW70I
That’s the trouble with bigots, they all want to save you with their own brand of Valhalla. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that they can’t all be right.
But then I suppose that this is the point.
Until we get rid of the current absession with not offending adherents of the “religion of peace” under any circumstances then they’ll carry on doing whatever they choose. We all know that a convert is the worst sort of bigot for any belief so if there’s no restraint on their actions they just go from one outrage to another.
Currently we all seem too ashamed of our own culture (in its widest sense) to stand up to these ignorant fanatics from the Middle Ages; tell them what’s permissable and what isn’t in this country and extract some sort of penalty when they overstep the mark. Where is the political leader making speeches to clearly state that this is the way the world works in the UK, and that it’s not racist, it’s not biased, it’s the law and it applies to us all.
For example in the second picture you’ve posted, why is it OK for some potential thug to be walking around with his face covered? That’s not the norm here and should be stopped. Why is someone waving signs bearing inflamatory messages not immediatey arrested under one of NuLiebore’s many hate laws? Or do they only apply to WASPs?
We can stop this but not if we don’t like ourselves enough to stand up for the way we want things to be.
So, why is this man able to get benefits? If he’s out spreading hate & venom he’s not available for work nor meeting whatever the target of application letters per week that the local Job Centre demands. Oh wait, he’s ‘more equal’. Thanks a bunch New Liebore that my tax money is being used to fund an extremist’s lifestyle while erstwhile hardworking pensioners starve or freeze..
Thadders
This is indeed a belter…well scribed.
How does it happen? Manipulative cynics catch young pillocks and turn them. (Watch movie The Assyrian)
American pillocks in search of oil and father’s blessing trample all over local egos.
Arab men with need to subjugate women and chop off their fun bits gain control of countries by cheating electors.
Idiot right-on patronising Establishment Brits tell Mullahs “Enter here all ye who would rape me, oooh you big-boy noble savages”.
Grinning former wannabe rock stars become Prime Ministers in search of legacies.
Peculiar Harriets for whom Palestinians can do no wrong tie themselves in appalling philosophical knots over men who really DO hate women, but wind up supporting them anyway. (See ‘muddle’ in dictionary).
It’s a species thang.
YM x
I’m sure this young man does allow people to laugh In HIS PRESENCE – provided He has told the joke and indicated His Permission.
The rest of us are more lucky.
I’m equally sure that God doesn’t really mind a joke at his expense, without permission.
If I’m wrong, then I am doomed to the other place and would be happier there.
A solution for the current inclement weather……appoint a Government minister for Snow. We will be rummaging for the factor 45 and Bermuda shorts come Friday lunchtime!
News update Saul….it is clearly snowing on Gordon’s parade.
Hoon can Hewitt…but it’s all a bit B&Q it.
Mandelsod appointed Plotfinder General? Truculent former Cabinet ministers to hold hard-line Strawist march in Brown’s constituency?
YM x
Hopefully someone will shoot him before long.
“Hopefully someone will shoot him before long”.
We don’ want anymore photographs of him. He’s not getting any better looking. Which could be his problem.
Oh, you meant kill him. Well, I don’t know about that. I was rather hoping for a bit of live suffering.
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