Physics and people such as Einstein and Hubble have a theory which makes sense, thankfully, since Einstein doesn’t always make sense to me. They said that in the beginning there was a big bang, and the explosion spewed forth particles which sped outwards becoming the many diverse people of this earth: the Jews, who parted first the Red Sea, and then the Palestinians from their homeland, the Christians who, trying to walk on water made bridges, and the Muslims who crossed them, and all the others who fit none of these categories.
But surely there has been a sea change which the Hubble people should note: these particles have now ceased their headlong flight and started coming together with the result that the people of the world may now be said to form just two large, loose groups: one consisting of those who hold rabid right wing views, disapprove of all this proximity and protest violently against it. The other consisting of persons who light little candles whenever the first group gets violent and say ‘tut tut’. Never mind from where each group draws its members, they resemble each other closely enough to warrant comment.
Organisations such Al-Qaeda, the Jewish Defense League and the Orange Volunteers belong to the first group, as also individuals such as Richard Reid the shoe bomber, Timothy McVeigh, and more recently Anders Breivik who couldn’t stand the proximity of all those Muslim shaped particles in Norway. For such people life means censorship – against persons for having or not having beards, against women for being raped, and against women for being alive, against governments for their policies, against persons for being or not being baptised, and against anyone who possesses a menorah.
Naturally, being extremist, and since assassination is just an extreme form of censorship, they proceed to assassinate the persons they censure. This explains why most victims of terrorist attacks are mostly beardless women, happy clappy Christians, or anyone who shouts ‘Oy vey!’ which is what Jews are taught to say just before being hit by a bus.
Many members of the second group spent much of their lives recently on prayer mats following Breivik’s killing spree in Norway, muttering ‘Please God, don’t let it be a Muslim, don’t let it be a Pakistani, please, God, please!’
It was just the same with Germans for years after the Second World War whenever a Jew anywhere in the world keeled over and died, ‘Please God, don’t let it be a Nazi, don’t let it be a German, please, please, Heil Gott!’
Well, this time around it was not a Nazi, nor a Muslim, nor even a Pakistani. One must thank the Lord. However, this does not make this tragedy anymore or less horrific or the actions of the perpetrator any different from other perpetrators of similar acts anywhere in the world.
Do ‘Muslim’ terrorists note the similarity between themselves and Breivik, this blond Norwegian who was so proud of his European heritage and Nordic race that he advocated cleansing his country of Muslims, because they were different; who targeted his government because he believed it was sympathetic towards these non-Catholic non-European persons.
Muslim militants too have a compulsion to kill persons belonging to any sect of Islam other than their own, and of course non-Muslims.
Breivik expressed admiration for Al-Qaeda’s quest for ‘cultural purity’, and said that had Mohammad (PBUH) been alive today, ‘Bin Laden would have been his second in command.’
Breivik’s blog has been traced, a 1,518 page document he has admitted to writing, and which calls for attacks on ‘traitors’ in Europe, who, he says, were allowing indiscriminate immigration, enabling a Muslim takeover of the continent and its European culture.
Breivik advocated demolishing mosques because they are not Catholic churches. In Pakistan, Ahmadi or some Sunni places of worship and shrines are attacked and destroyed because they do not belong to the attackers’ sect. The rank and file Pakistani also subscribes to caste or tribal systems and marriages across either are discouraged and even violently prevented.
Breivik stated his acts were justified and non-punishable, a sad but necessary way of bringing about a revolution in Norway. Militants in the Islamic world target civilians to get their message across and justify this by using distorted arguments from the peaceful religion of Islam.
Breivik signs out of his blog on the 22nd of July saying: ‘I believe this will be my last entry. Sincere regards, Andrew Berwick, Knights Templar Norway.’
Our hearts go out to the Norwegians in their tragic hour. In the midst of this tragedy let us grieve for victims of terror and their families everywhere in the world, sacrificed as they all are at the altar of extremism, an ideology that crosses all boundaries.