On the Westminster Attack

It was a normal, boring day, until my Dad called me in to see the news, there had been an attack in London; an attacker drove a car through people on Westminster bridge, killing three people and injuring a bunch more, before fatally stabbing a police officer on the Parliamentary Estate and ultimately being shot dead. This is obviously a major event, and has shaken Britain on an emotional level, and while I usually busy myself with petty matters when it comes to politics, I have some opinions I need to get off my chest.

This attack was only a matter of time; in the hours following the attack, my mum expressed shock that something like this could happen in Britain, but frighteningly similar attacks have happened again and again across the continent; the truck attacks in Nice and Berlin, the Brussels bombing, and the long list of stabbings and gun attacks, including the Paris massacre and Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, not to forget the attacks happening across the pond; Orlando, the New York bombing and San Bernardino,  London was only a matter of time, a major city that has so far, thankfully, escaped the terrorist bloodbath soaking the continent. Our time came though on the 22nd of March, when Khalid Masood ran down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, before crashing his car and proceeding on foot to the Parliamentary estate, where he stabbed a cop and was then shot and killed. This is a guy with history; he's had several previous convictions for criminal offences, including knife attacks, and, according to some sources, spent some time in Saudi Arabia. The Question of when and why he was radicalised is ultimately irrelevant, since the damage has now been done, people are dead because of this fuck. Even I, being honest, was a little shocked that this had happened, obviously you don't want terrorist attacks to happen, so when they do happen, it shocks people. It wasn't until later that day, when I was checking Facebook however, that the probable reality sank in, when I saw a bunch of my friends putting British flag filters on their profile photos, and when people began sharing things like #PrayforLondon, and it occurred to me that once again, we would learn nothing from this event. Attacks in France, Germany, Brussels, Orlando, New York, San Bernardino, and now London, have seen very consistent reactions; people virtue signalling by putting filters on Facebook profile pictures, posting #Prayfor wherever, landmarks across the globe are lit up in the colours of the targeted nation's flag, and politicians and news outlets express horror and disgust at the attack, and babble about how this will not scare us and we will be defiant. And it's happened again, and it will happen again, and again, and again, and we will do nothing every time, we will virtue signal, we will 'stand in defiance' against the terrorists, and then we'll bury our heads in the sand and wait for the inevitable next attack. This is the reason I wrapped up Bring on the Meteor, a piece I've been sitting on for several weeks, I said in the end of that piece that we've become decadent, and we have, even now, people are still pretending that there isn't a major threat descending on our society, and while this one may not have nukes like the last one, it has the resolve to destroy us, and will replace us and our values with its ideology.

I said in Bring on the Meteor that people are scared of speaking their mind out of fear of persecution for their ideas; can't criticise Feminism because that's sexist, I say fuck that, you can't criticise the ideology that inspired all of these terror attacks; Islam, because that's racist, I say fuck that. There's a reason the KKK is almost dead in America, because people talked about it, and it's ideas were roundly rejected by the discourse, the horrors of the Nazis have forever discredited Fascism, but some ideologies are apparently above criticism, Communism still has its believers, despite the failures of every communist state that has ever existed, BLM still has its supporters, despite being every bit as racist and hateful as the KKK, but is free from criticism, because criticising it is racist. It's the same with Islam, Islam is not simply a religion, it's a political movement, an ideology, but you can't criticise it because it's racist to do so, this wedding of Race and religion has created a world in which Islam is effectively free from opposition, and in a world full of decadent nihilists and retarded ideologues, who call you bad names for daring to have a different opinion, a violent, corrosive ideology like Islam effectively has free reign, like sheep just letting the wolves in, and being horrified when the wolves start eating them. This ignorance of the problem needs to stop, people need to pull their heads out of the sand and realise what's really happening here, that our 'defiance' is the terrorists' victory, us ignoring the threat just gives them more time and freedom to wreak havoc. The label of Islamophobia has been engineered to create a paranoia about speaking out against Islam, and it has worked; people are scared of questioning the supposedly peaceful religion that's been hijacked by a tiny minority of evil people. The truth is the Quran is a book filled with evil shit, one which advocates the subjugation and extermination of non believers, the subjugation and torture of women, the execution and torture of homosexuals, and the Islamic conquest of the world. The argument that not all Muslims are terrorists is irrelevant, it's true that not all Muslims are terrorists, a Sam Harris quote comes to mind here though, where he once talked about Islamic fundamentalism, he states that religious fundamentalism isn't a problem if the fundamentals of the religion aren't, he gave the example of Jainism, a non-violent religion. There are no Jainist terrorists, so why is there Islamic terrorism if Islam is a principally peaceful faith? The reality is that it's not, and that when we say it is, we are lying to ourselves.

And that is why these attacks are still happening, after two years and numerous attacks in Europe and America and now Britain, we continue to lie to ourselves that Islam is not a problem, that it's not an invasive ideology that is completely incompatible with and aggressive to our own values, and that lie, and a fear of being politically incorrect prevents the expression of criticism, criticism that Islam rightfully deserves, it's not a peaceful faith, it's a twisted political ideology that needs to be criticised and ridiculed into oblivion, where it will simply lack the teeth to pose anywhere near as serious a threat as it poses now. Brexit and the election of Trump gave me hope that the shackles of Political correctness were finally being broken, but here we still are, too scared to speak our minds lest we be ostracised by our progressive peers, get fired, get shanked by some religious nutter, or end up on some Government watch list, the ruthless, uncontrolled and honest exchange of ideas is something that is needed now, violent and dangerous ideologies need to be challenged, as do the rampant ideologues who would rather protect their precious bubbles than the safety of others. We need to stop pretending that there isn't a problem, because these attacks will not just stop on their own, the root cause needs to be addressed, and it's not being addressed by the politicians, or the news outlets, or any of the virtue signallers on social media. This dishonesty will continue to kill people, and the decadence promoted by cunts like London's mayor Sadiq Khan will not help. Terrorism is not a normal part of life in big cities, and it should never be, but it will be if we don't stop lying to ourselves, and we continue to let the terrorists win.