The following is a
public service announcement from The news
in brief:
When was the last time you went to a church hall jumble sale?
Last month? Last year? Ten years ago? However long it’s been, what do you
remember? We remember trestle tables heaped with second-hand baby clothes, half-chewed
G.I. Joe figures and homemade scones with too-hot tea served in barely watertight
polystyrene cups. We also remember old people. Lots and lots of old people.
Bible-types who go to church every Sunday and donate tinned fruit to the church’s
Harvest Festival collection and knit scarves to sell at the Women’s Institute
fete. They like to pinch little boy’s cheeks and they refuse to understand how
putting the tickets back in the tombola keep the odds the same for everyone and
increases the number of tickets you can sell. Do these people not want money to
fix the church roof?!
We digress.
How many times did you look at those grey-haired
Jesus-botherers and think ‘I’ll bet those bile-spewing hatemongers are all
members of the KKK. They should be shot, or deported, or shot then deported.
Fuckers!’
The answer is probably zero.
That’s because not every Christian is a member of the KKK.
The KKK are terrible human beings whilst most Christians are ordinary men and
women who drink tea, eat toast and watch a bit of telly before bed. They seldom
set fire to things and they are probably not inclined to lynch black people.
Somehow, this understanding doesn’t copy across to some of
the impossibly vocal, but entirely slack-jawed yokels who ruin the Internet
with their mindless comments about our Muslim brothers and sisters. Despite the
fact that in Tunisia,
groups of Muslims risked their lives to protect innocent beach-users from the
recent terrorist attack, some people – some very noisy people - can’t fathom
the very simple fact that not all Muslims are terrorists. Just the crazy ones.
ISIS are terrible human
beings whilst most Muslims are ordinary men and women who drink tea, eat toast
and watch a bit of telly before bed. They seldom blow things up and they are
probably not inclined to shoot people.
It’s really not that hard, and if some of you absolute
wankers who like to comment on the news could maybe apply a few milliseconds of
thought before you spew bile all over your keyboards, that would be just swell.
Reading the news so
you don’t have to…
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