Lady Murasaki wrote:Puzzler wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:You're obsessed with Muslims.
Well they hardly know how to keep a low profile. Why do you think no ones obsessed with Hindus or Sikhs?
Tell me why Puzz.
There wasn't this obsession in the media when I was a kid.
Well yeah, things have changed in recent years haven't they? 9/11 was a turning point. Prior to that, despite regular random terrorist attacks, they didn't stand out any more than other terror groups or religions.
Including and since 9/11 though, they've upped their game considerably on the terror front. They are attacking more Western targets. Apart from bombs, they're using barbaric methods to kill on Western soil - slitting peoples throats, driving lorries at pedestrians etc. They have also targeted children.
Plus we have seen the rise of organised islamic terror groups - Al Qaeda (more prolific since 9/11), Isis, Boko harem, to name three. Also, we now have lone wolf attacks to worry about.
In addition, we now have mass islamic immigration to the west, so as well as getting attacked by outsiders, we also have an 'enemy within' - the 'home grown terrorist' (imagine a mass immigration of Germans to the UK in the 1930s). There is an insidious islamic network spreading across the Western world like a cancer. This network produces terrorists and their support. Many of those who play no active part, still agree with what the terrorists are doing. A Pandora's box has been opened.
All the above has thrown the spotlight onto islam, and made the west more aware of the vile and unsavoury practices within the religion, things that pretty much went unnoticed previously - the treatment of gays and women for example. We also have the ugly aspects of the culture popping up everywhere - the mosques and burkhas - the most hideous of eyesores. Plus we now have social unrest, and a division among the indigenous Brits - those who roll out the red carpet to muslims, such as yourself, and those of us who don't, such as me.
Perhaps worst of all though, is the weak-willed liberal attitude of Western organisations and authorities that pander to islam, and turn a blind eye to it's unsavoury and criminal activities.