Re: SNOWFLAKES? They're todays FASCISTS!
What you say Julie is correct, but I see the reason as being slightly different.
Mostly due to a) Blair and Bush , and their constant reference to 'Muslims' in the most derogatory way.
Who had even a glimmer of disdain for any religion that was worth talking about prior to our brainwashing by that pair of war mongers ? I bet most in this country didn't even know there was a religion attributed to Islam. The invasion and mass release of prisoners was culpable for the Islamic fundamentalists movement to kill Christians and others , thus putting religions into the spotlight. Nobody bothered to ask why those prisoners were in jail ...they just opened the doors and thought they would get praise for being compassionate !
Secondly, b) the whole process of 'globalisation ' has contributed to the continuing problems we have now inherited from every corner of the planet.
Fifteen years and UK has been turned upside down as has the whole world .
Wars, wars and more wars in countries that would otherwise have continued to live day to day without outside interference from 'leaders' who make it their business to squabble and cause discontent amongst their own people and other nations .
Wars cost money, and we have to pay. Strange thing that none ever raise that issue and how much UK has spent on wars. At least £30 billion between Afghanistan and Iraq alone.
Iraq was the greatest influence in causing such instability and as it turned out...for no apparent reason or not the reasons we 'the gullible' were given. We are still being gullible to our detriment.
We now pay a hefty price , but it wouldn't take much to make it worse and if Blair had remained in office we would have also been fighting in Syria as he so urged the then Government to do so.
Syria started by 3 or 4 high school students painting political stuff on walls and setting fire to a post box. (something they knew was very wrong )but school kids as activists in Syria, just doesn't ring true.
George Bush told Assad to interrogate them because they could have been connected to Al Qaeda , and they were brutally interrogated by the police. The parents objected and protests 'organised ' by 'others' were initiated.
Bush worked in devious ways to cause instability amongst the Middle East and dragged us all into the mayhem that spread and continues today.
Globalisation of mixing the cultures does not work for anyone on such a large scale, and now we have the repercussions of forced integration and religious followings , which are not approved of.
Unless there are laws put in place to protect the Muslim communities , equivalent to how we are unable to speak and ridicule Jews and Judaism, it will get worse, but I believe that is what will come from pressure in the not too distant future. The same old cliché , 'what is good for the goose is good for the gander'. If Erdogan has his way, we can guarantee that outcome.
Then what might come next.... is what I wonder ?
Oh dear, I think I may have gone off track a little bit , but to my mind these are the issues in a round about way for discontent we have today,,,, everywhere.