British Islamist and the missing shoe

Why are these people representing Muslims in front of the media?

There is no denying the fact that Islamists have quite a few quaint and misguided ideas. However, the British Islamists are, to say the least, completely insane. It's like they're a whole other level of crazy. Whether it's their "men" talking, or the "ninjas" that pass for women voicing their “I am lesser than a man” opinion, you have to be a similarly ridiculous to actually agree with what they have to say. Their claims are laughable at best, and completely heinous and full of hatred at worst.

Their now-reformed-but-having-done-everything-in-my-past poster boy, Anjem Choudary, constantly spews hateful nonsense on the media. From praising the 9/11 hijackers, to calling Osama bin Laden a martyr, to calling for murder of any apostates, to – and this stuff is not made up – justifying the Peshawar Army Public School attack of December 2014, he's done it all, and has shown that he's not above stooping to any depths of depravity.

Never mind the fact that most Muslims think he's a vile idiot, and reject his ideas, because the media is only interested in bringing vile people like him to the limelight so that they can be successful in their "scare tactics" about what a menace Islam poses and how horribly backward and hateful the Muslims are. Truth be damned, ratings are everything.

I've also seen their ‘I'm-nothing-if-not-a-sex-object-therefore-I-need-to-hide-lest-I-tempt-men’ women and heard just how "enlightening" their views are. In a documentary, "angry ninjas" of Luton, who were protesting the lawful arrest of the wife of a Muslim man who'd set off a bomb in Stockholm (yeah, let's not get into just how peace loving they are) made it very clear to the perfectly decently dressed presenter about how she's trying to "seduce men" because she's "naked". Yup, clearly if you're not dressed in bed-sheets, to the point where you can barely see and can't even be heard properly, and of course, never identified, then you're not only naked but are also trying to seduce someone – because that's the only thing women do. 

 It is clear that if there's one thing British Islamists are good at, it's being complete and utter jokes. But then just recently I came across something so downright stupid that I had to take a double take and ensure that it wasn't satire. Nope, it wasn't. ‘

Asghar Bukhari is another one of these ‘geniuses’. When he couldn't find one of his shoes in the morning upon waking up, he decided to reach the only rational conclusion: that the Zionists had taken it from his house to intimidate him. Yeah, this nobody from nowhere is that much of a target for a fictional organized group of Zionists that they get together and think of ways to intimidate him. And the best they could come up with was to steal one of his shoes. Yup, only one, because if they'd taken both of them, he won't have been adequately intimidated.

Not only did he make a Facebook post about it, but in it he urged everyone to share his post "widely, for if it is happening to" him, he's sure (yup, sure) that it is happening to many, many others who haven't talked about it. Let me restate that for you, he wants you to share this post because he is sure that there are many, many others who wake up in the morning to find one of their shoes missing but end up not talking about it. I guess it has to do with the fact that most people don't think "Zionists" the minute one of their shoes is misplaced, and take the less insane way out by assuming that they either misplaced it.

But wait, there's more to it. This “enlightened man” also recorded a long and rambling video insisting that - and here's the kicker – any rational and logical person would come to the same conclusion if they find their shoe missing (for the umpteenth time, I'm not making this up).

Then he goes on to add how the Zionists are targeting him, like they've done in the past – like some mafia did to a US Congressman, because he read a book which said that's how they operate. Yup, in his mind, as far as the Zionist hierarchy of who to play mind games go, he's next to actual elected politicians. Because the best part about being a nutcase is that you tend to feel really important and good about yourself or whatever crazy path you've taken. That's the thing I have against the "high self-esteem is desirable" group, as Carlin said: turns out sociopaths and psychopaths think very highly of themselves. But that's a rant for another day.

For the love of Cthulhu and all things unholy, are these the people that are representing Muslims in front of the media? Is it any wonder that nobody takes Muslims seriously? And why is it surprising that it is very easy for the world to paint Islam as a horrific religion, which gives women no rights, and which produces brainwashed idiots who think it is okay to kill even children? After all, these are the Muslims that get all the attention while the sane Muslims decide it's too much trouble to get involved in public speaking. But wait, maybe if we start hiding their shoes...

A reader and a crafter, Urooj is a cynic on the outside and a disappointed idealist inside. Follow her on Twitter

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