A dire state of affairs. Some nut-job commits this heinous crime in the name of religion, and then the whole population descends into mud-slinging. The EDL's nest starts buzzing, the muslims run for cover, and the rest of the population stumble around, blindly making half-arsed, bumbling, generalised statements; a startling amount of which stink strongly of the far-right.
The act itself is awful. And the aftermath is just head-banging, predictable, repetitive tedium.
People suck.
According to one of the guys at work, who enjoys a bit of Twittering, halfwtted inbred morons were posting comments about how all Muslims a terrorists and other such nonsensical claptrap. The Sun had a link to the video of the attack and it's all over YouTube's front page. Surely to goodness the powers that be can stop this sort of sickening exposure out of respect (if nothing else) for the guy that was killed and his family.
I think that there should be due process but maybe a change in the law to treat these 'people' in a way that they can not continue to spread the hate, but at the same time you do not want them to become martyrs to a cause
I blame, among other things, the internet and social networking. Everything is over-exposed and the wave of hate spreads all too easily and quickly.
On Wednesday there was a guy stabbed in the head around the corner and up the hill from my work. I'd seen the emergency vehicles going into Torry and then, when I got inside, was told about it by someone who'd read about the attack and all its' gory details on Facebook. Later on the same day, the BBC website ran a couple paragraphs saying an incident was being investigated and the local TV news didn't have much more info' than that until the following day. To me, something's skewed a bit if social networking sites are getting more detailed news items than the proper/established news outlets. Given the large amount of Eastern Europeans living in the area, I'm sure you can guess the rhetoric that followed, despite the only facts known were a bloke had been stabbed and a road was closed as a result.
The world's gone mad.