It is often forgotten that most terrorists are non-Muslim as outlined in this excellent article from the New Statesman.
This news story from the BBC is a worrying example of such neo-fascist terrorists that are forgotten about thanks to the embedded discourse associating terrorism with Asian, Arabic or Muslim men. Like the nail bomber of the late 90s who targeted the Bangladeshi community and gay community in London, he appeared to be acting alone, but there is no doubt that they both exemplify a worrying trend of fascism which actively promotes violence and are probably linked with the BNP and their vile networks of Nazi organisations (such as Combat 18).
Ken Livingstone in this interview with LabourList: "This doesn’t get reported in the press, but we’ve had nine angry white men that we’ve arrested accumulating arms and bomb making equipment. That’s difficult to deal with as these people are only peripherally on the radar."
I read a news story recently stating that there was evidence that the far right could stage more terrorist attacks, in order to stoke racial tensions; in other words, they want to use this embedded association between terrorism and the middle east in order to create a scapegoat for their own attacks, perhaps as a way of saying 'look how bad mass immigration is, it's caused us to kill a load of innocent people'. It'll doubtless be quite effective, sadly.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when there were increased searches at airports, and lots of white people would complain (usually in the Daily Mail and other right-wing press) about being stopped, on the grounds that they weren't asian.