Having spent just under a month this summer in Lesvos Island, bringing people ashore, I can tell you that the demographics quoted here are as real as dubya's and blair's claims of WMD in Iraq. Do not fall into the trap the likes of murdoch set. Yes, there is a problem with radical butchers who kill indiscriminately, and this is the reason so many people flee their country. Because there is nothing left. No homes, no schools, no roads, no running water, no electricity, no jobs, no food and the list goes on. People die daily either from bullets, or from explosions, losing their head literally, and we are prepared to sit comfortably and believe everything people we know are corrupt want us to believe.
I will say it again. The deranged, inhumane butchers of isis want you and me to believe that it is 'us VS them'. It makes it easier to recruit the next suicide bomber, the next 'jihadi John', the next easily fooled disenfranchised young muslim boy from East London or elsewhere. Bombing indiscriminately achieves exactly what these lunatics in Raqqa want: Disdain, despair and anger.
So, if not bombs, what is the answer? Education, jobs, communication, if you ask me. Obviously for a large number of people this is too late. They are way too radicalised/disenfranchised/angry to see reason. For them a more on hands approach is necessary. For the rest of the population though there is plenty of time. The least contact you have with something/someone different to you, the easier it is to demonise it, the easier it becomes to blame it for things others tell you they are responsible for, the easier it becomes to see them as 'fair game'.
I refuse to hate anyone, or at least I try. I used to be a very angry person, hating a number of people, countries, ideas etc. I realised this does not make me a very happy person, neither does it change anything for the better. Nowadays I am trying to understand, educate myself, and if possible, get as much information as I can before I make a judgement on someone.
If this guy can refrain from hate, so can I. And so can you.
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