white, English, middle-aged terrorists

[dude1394]

Couldn't pass up the chance to post this title. Delicious article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...337669,00.html

Muslims feel like victims. The West feels guilty. Is the world going mad?
Gerard Baker
It takes courage for leaders to expose flaws in their society. But some are willing to do it
IF ALL THE BIG terrorist attacks of the past 35 years — from the Munich massacre to the July 7 London bombings last year — had been carried out by groups of white, English, middle-aged newspaper columnists, I suspect my life might have become quite intolerable in recent years.

I would have had to get used to looks of fearful suspicion every time I got on a train or a bus. Whenever I checked in for a flight or sought entrance to a government building I would doubtless have been taken away for questioning.

It would, no doubt, have become very frustrating. I’d have probably taken to the streets with other white, English, middle-aged newspaper columnists (it would have been quite a big demonstration), with placards that declared “We are not all terrorists!”. Or, being prolix by profession, more likely: “Extrapolation from isolated instances of criminality to sweeping ethnic and professional characterisations is immoral!” But in the end, I’d have to accept that the suspicion was justified. That it was an inescapable fact that my ethnicity, age and profession had become associated, over a very long period, with a predilection for terrorist activities.

[MavsX]

thats a damn good article my man. nice work in finding that tid bit of genius...