AN OBLIGATORY DEBATE ABOUT RADICAL ISLAM
Guys, relax. Islam is a religion which means ‘peace’. It does not mean ‘pieces of commuter ankle flying through the Aldgate air’. It’s a subtle yet important distinction you guys need to get with, and the first step in you guys overcoming your lamentable Islamophobia.
Honestly, the way things are going in this country, these days a guy like me can’t even walk into a crowded shopping mall with a full beard, backpack and white religious dress, shout “Allahu akbar!” and strike a match, without some ex-squaddie have-a-go-hero leaping onto me and pinning me to the ground. Don’t these people know I’m joking? That I’m just celebrating our differences in the only way I know how?
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