There’s this guy at work, and I use to quite like him but today he kept calling me terrorist because I recently went back home to visit my gran and he keeps saying I went back to join some terrorist organisation he calls the “brotherhood”, it started as a joke and I laughed it off but then he started getting serious…
…He started talking about the Afghan police who shot them British soldiers recently and then he said everyone back there in the Muzlum World was a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser…
…So I told him he was brainwashed by the biased/fascist media like the Daily Express, and that I’ve got relatives in the Muzlum World who are certainly not terrorist, I told him we Muslims have got as much reason to hate terrorists as anyone else because we’re just as much their target as non-Muslims and that more Muslims have been the victims of suicide bombings than anyone else, I told him 99.99% of Muslims condemn terrorism and the ones who do turn to terrorism don’t do so because they hate the West or because they believe killing innocents for the sake of it will give them virgins but because they oppose the western goverments foreign policies (not that that justifies terrorism), he didn’t seem to undertand any of that, it was like talking to a brick wall, he’s quite gormless…
He said British Muslumz condemning terrorism doesn’t mean much because the terrorists have sleeper cells in villages in the Muzlum world and over here who lie to cover up their true identities.
There’s a Indian Malayali Christian guy at work and he joined in on the Muslim bashing saying Muslims have too many babies (reiterating what an MP recently said about Muslims breeding 10 times more than anyone else, and there being a danger of them becoming the majority).
On the one hand these people expect us to be loyal and patriotic towards this country and when we try and integrate they themselves push us away, I can understand how young Muslims lads who are a bit naive can be attracted to pseudo-Islamic hate cults in the face of all this hatred (not that it justifies it, that’s also another evil)…
I feel so broken, so dejected, so depressed… I’ve been wanting to cry all day, I’m a sensitive guy and stuff like this really gets to me, I’ve been feeling down ever since he said those things… I’d move back to Pakistan for good and set up a shop or something just to make ends meet but it’s getting bombed over there aswell so where does one turn? There are more nice people in this country still, just today a pleasent old white gentleman on the bus asked my opnion on the troops in Afghanistan, I couldn’t talk long because I had reached my bus stop but he gave me positive vibes, he wanted to make conversation but the negative ones just make it unbearable, they drain all the positive energy out of you, they make your life so miserable… Life is so unfair, why do we have to answer for events that are totally beyond our control? I didn’t use to be much into religion and I’d rather not have anything to do with politics I’m too young but all this hostility has made me more conscious of my religious identity, religion is the only thing which gives me solace in the face of so much hatred..
Vent over, GS is my shrink, if I didn’t have this outlet for my feelings I’d suffocate and die, muchos gracias for listening.
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. Wake up dude ! Change your attitude or otherwise such morons will always bully you.