23 February 2015

Repeat after me: It’s got nothing to do with Islam

The more excitable members of these groups have spent the past 1400 years trying to wipe each other out, a process that continues today in Syria and Iraq — and, to a lesser extent, in Auburn and Lakemba. It seems counterintuitive, but this crowd gains new members with every latest Islamic atrocity. Last week, following Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein’s murderous rampage in Copenhagen, Sanna al-Baltam spoke to Danish television about her former neighbour.

“We’re not sure it was him who did it,” she said. “If it was, it has nothing to do with Islam. He must have been manipulated.”

Yep. Nothing to do with Islam. Why, anyone at all could have reason to attack a freedom of speech conference and a synagogue. That is, if the person in question is the type who, as Danish media reported, enjoyed discussing Islam, the Israel-Palestinian conflict and his hatred for Jews.

The Copenhagen attack followed those other recent nothing-to-do-with-Islam incidents in Paris, which ended with Islamic gunman Amedy Coulibaly’s slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket. [The Daily Telegraph] Read more