How has a thread about innocent Muslims being targeted and run down turned into an anti-Muslim thread?

And you lot wonder why the R word gets used a lot on here.

Anyone who drives at innocent people in a car is scum.

We have grown used to different terminology used for such events. Apparently, these days, it is only a 'hate crime' if the perpetrators are White and it is only terrorism if they are Muslim.
Frankly, the only thing surprising about this sort of attack is that it doesn't happen more often. That is due to British tolerance. The most tolerant country you will find.
Imagine if Christians arrived in pakistan or some other hardcore Islamic country in large numbers and demonstrated against the army, raped young Muslim women and built churches in every town. Imagine what would happen.

British Muslims - I assume this is who you're referring to - weren't 'imported'. The large pakistani community were granted citizenship after the region they had called home for hundreds of years was colonised violently, before we made a hasty exit, and left a partition which lead to one of the biggest human migrations in history. By us. Before we arrived in India, the Mutual Empire was enormous, and dwarfed the wealth we possessed by some margin. We left a region war torn, impoverished and chaotic.

The British Syrian community, which makes up a lot of more recent migration, can make a similar claim. Their land has historically been a very prosperous one. It is one of the earliest sites of civilisation, a major territory under the Ottomans, and after French occupation was authoritarian yes, but by no means 'third world' under the Assad dynasty. It is only since our invasion that the country has been turned in to a wasteland, and millions have been forced to flee in search of refuge. We have taken in, per capita, the fewest Syrian refugees in Europe.

All of this shouldn't take away from the staggering fact that your comment is IN reference to an act of terror committed by WHITE ENGLISH PEOPLE. But it should serve to inform us of the staggering depths of stupidity which your post manages to fall to.

We on the left are often accused of terrorist apologism but if this thread - and particularly this comment - is not apology for the attempted murder of innocent citizens I don't know what is.

We have Muslims who use this site and follow Palace, as I'm sure you know. I think an apology to them is in order.

Edited by serial thriller (21 Sep 2018 5.12pm)

One thing I will never understand is people's instinctive defence of British atrocities abroad. It comes from such a superficial reading of history, and one which is peddled and parroted by this country's establishment.

Go back to the early 20th century and Hindus would very much have been condemned and vilified like you do to Muslims. 30 years ago it was people like myself, the Irish. Those who condemn without learning will do so towards whoever they're told to, those who attempt to learn will begin to empathise.

All of this shouldn't take away from the staggering fact that your comment is IN reference to an act of terror committed by WHITE ENGLISH PEOPLE. But it should serve to inform us of the staggering depths of stupidity your post manages to fall to.

We on the left are often accused of terrorist apologism but if this thread - and particularly this comment - is not apology for the attempted murder of innocent citizens I don't know what is.

We have Muslims who use this site and follow Palace, as I'm sure you know. I think an apology to them is in order.

Edited by serial thriller (21 Sep 2018 5.12pm)

Edited by serial thriller (21 Sep 2018 5.16pm)

Well yes, but this argument all arose from the comment by Penge. I was merely pointing out the irony of dismissing countries as 'third world' when we played such an active role in their recent history.