Alex In Wonderland

I am a Fanatic, but what am I fanatical about?

Sally and I held a conversation about your average extremist attempting to blow themselves up in the name of Allah. There are a few issues I have here with the understanding of the aims of these people.

With your average terrorist they have specific aims and goals and, whilst I hope that the god of syphilis visits everyone of them, I can understand their goals. ETA wanted a seperate Basque homeland, the IRA wanted a united Ireland, the PLO wanted their land and right to govern themselves, the PPK in Turkey want a Kurdish homeland - all goals I can see and that are tangable.

Now we come to your average "Islamic" fundamentalist. I use "Islamic" in quotation marks because I do not believe these people act in the name of religion. For a start I was under the impression that all religion preached peace and love for your fellow man. You cannot do that whilst killing people. Secondly I was not under the impression that the entire of the Islamic world had declared a Fatwah on the western world.

Serial killers and psychopaths kill in the name of god, or jesus, or the little pixie that lives under the stairs, or because their TV is crap. There is no real motive or justification for their crimes. It seems that these fanatics are in this same, broad category.

Why are the attacking us? Do they want a seperate homeland? Oh, no. They have that already. Are we occupying where they live? Well, aside from Iraq I am not aware that we are. Are we forcing our religion on them? I don't think so - missionary work in the aggressive 17th century Spanish style has long gone.

So they do not like our lifestyle, our politics, our alleged decadence? Well, and here is the shocker fundamentalists, go somewhere else. Anywhere else. I don't care where. I am not interested in you any more, in your killing of people because you don't like our skin colour (makes you a racist) or our TV or our right to let women dress in something other than a head to toe bed sheet. I cannot be bothered to fathom out your tiny, idiotic, insignificant railings at a world that you feel is unjust and unfair. The world is unjust and unfair for most people. It is for me - I want to bring my daughter up in a world where some idiot with a rucksack is not sitting next to her and she is wondering if she is going to get blown up. I want to travel into London with her and show her the sights she lives so close too, that she has a right to see because she lives in a free and demcratic country.

So tell me your aims and your goals. What do you expect to achieve? Apart from the undying emnity of people who live in this world with you, you have achieved nothing except to make all people of your race and creed now suspect in the eyes of everyone.

Idiots.