I was reading (on Google+ naturally) the disturbing words of an ordinary Liverpudlian who was wearing a T-shirt. As far as I can make out the T-Shirt was typical of the type one might innocently buy as a tourist visiting New York, featuring a montage of the American flag and the Statue of Liberty. It was similar to this one.
As far as I can tell the T-shirt was being worn just as one might wear any T-shirt when searching for something to put on ahead of just popping outside in the sunshine.
Unfortunately for this fellow, he innocently strolled past the mosque at the end of his road, wearing the T-shirt. It was Friday prayers, and as usual there were hate speakers gathered outside the mosque. They were there to leaflet the ordinary folk attending the mosque with their pamphlets proclaiming the West as servants of the Jews and enemies of Islam.
So, when the T-shirt wearer strolled by, they let rip, aggressively attacking him both verbally and then physically. Had it not been for the normal folk coming out from Friday prayers, who knows what might have happened to him. He can’t praise or thank enough those who intervened to protect him.
Let’s spell this out. Moderate Muslims saw a non-Muslim human being in trouble, being attacked by radical Muslims, and came to his aid.
This is happening more and more as Muslims are saying enough is enough and ‘not in my name’ when it comes to the vicious and radical outbursts and hatred coming from the radicalised anti-everybody-who-isn’t-them jihadists. However, it doesn’t get any media coverage. The limelight is always reserved for the nutters.
Liverpool hasn’t quite reached the height of hatred that rules in other areas of the UK. There aren’t no-go areas yet, patrolled by those radicals who won’t allow police or non-Muslims to enter the streets. Most Muslims just live alongside non-Muslims and both get on with their lives just as ducks live alongside swans on local lakes. Those who run the smaller shops that require the working of extremely long hours for little reward, and the non-Chinese takeaways, all tend to be Muslim. This is where both cultures tend to ‘meet’.
To my surprise, some days after this incident, the T-Shirt also managed to get a reaction from one of the local shopkeepers. The fella was refused service because of the T-Shirt. He now has to walk a little further to a different shop where the T-shirt doesn’t cause any offence.
Surely there is something fundamentally wrong with the mentality of those taking offence at such an innocent T-Shirt?
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