Theresa May and her ilk arm people like this Manchester bomber in foreign lands, to achieve imperial aims; people who decapitate children and carry out attacks like this on a daily basis. Our governments do this with little thought about the incredibly complex nature of the Middle East - just topple a perceived dictator using barbaric jihadists and all will be well! Truth is, they don't care. They just want the oil and the power; plus perpetual war is a huge money making business.
Meanwhile, we allow people from our country to go and fight for these jihadist groups. We can't possibly start arresting them, because the public would then become wise to the nature of these militant groups and our monstrous 'foreign policy', and it would be politically incorrect. So we'll just let them back in no bother.
Yes, we all need to stick together at times like these, and not give in to the scaremongering of the Right, who want to blame an entire religion. But we also need to react angrily; not towards each other, but towards our governments, who via all their wars and their geopolitical alliances, are fuelling this violence both abroad and at home.
We also need to acknowledge that we now have a problem with radicalism in this country, that is being allowed to fester and expand, partly as a result of Saudi Arabia's exporting of Wahhabism throughout Europe, and the world; of our continuous bombings of Muslims; of the fear of being politically incorrect; and of neoliberal policies destroying communities. It's a perfect storm of chaos.
The Right needs to understand that it is only a hateful sect of 'Islam' that is the problem. The Left needs to acknowledge that it exists, or else the Right will become increasingly infuriated and racist. And we both need to direct our anger at our 'establishment' and foreign policy.
If our governments really wanted to tackle this problem, they would challenge Saudi Arabia's funding of ultra conservative/hateful Mosques around the world; and their direct support of ISIS/al Qaeda. But no, instead we sell them tonnes of weapons! What is the point in evermore surveillance and security, if none of this is addressed? Could it be that 'they' want this? - keep the public under threat, under surveillance and carefully controlled. Isn't this what rulers have done throughout history? Is it naive of us to think that we live in this enlightened time of freedom and transparency where there is nothing sinister going on?
I don't know. It just doesn't make much sense to me, and these are my thoughts.
