Hate-filled conspiracies versus civilised principles
Re: “Medieval Islam has no place in modern world”, Have Your Say, yesterday.
JC Wilcox’s absurd claim that radical Islam is being encouraged as a political tool by globalists to destroy Western civilisation to achieve their ambition of a totalitarian New World Order is of course complete nonsense, and straight out of the conspiracy theorist’s playbook.
Having previously directed his spite at Islam and Muslims as a whole, Mr Wilcox now tries to belatedly cover his tracks by assuring us that the majority of Muslims are good people. Well, of course they are, but the writer has already revealed his prejudice and bigotry in his claims that indigenous British people feel alienated by the Muslim communities in their cities.
If Mr Wilcox is so concerned at what he perceives to be the plight of these indigenous people in Britain, and presumably elsewhere in the Western world, then what is his solution? Does he wish to wave a magic wand and make these Muslim populations disappear in a puff of smoke? Or perhaps a Rohingya-style campaign of oppression and violence, so that “they all go back to where they came from”?
In reality, Britain is a generally happy country, the 19th happiest in the world, (Thailand 32nd) according to a recent survey. Where tensions do arise between people of different beliefs and races, then patience, common sense and goodwill are the principles to employ, not inflamed rhetoric designed to sow division and hatred.
Robin Grant
