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How else do racist mobs in Britain get their bloodlust and blind hatred, when they see British governments sending troops, drones and helicopter gun-ships into Muslim countries to murder en masse and with impunity?”
Belying Cameron’s intonations of “all together patriotism”, his cabinet called two emergency meetings in Downing Street with top national security advisers. The Cabinet Office Room Briefing Room A (Cobra) meetings are the equivalent of the White House Situation Room – reflecting an anxiety of national crisis.
But one feels that the concern among Britain’s rulers is not so much that they believe, on the basis of one brutal incident, that a “terror threat” is imminent. Would senior politicians and police officers really meet with members of the ministry of defense, MI5 and MI6 over a random stabbing in London?
What the emergency response of Britain’s national security apparatus suggests is a singular nervousness about the explosive racial tensions that are boiling in British society. Ironically, these tensions have been instigated and are reaching fever-pitch owing to the British government’s own policies of militarism, imperialist war-making and the stoking of Islamophobia over several years with “war on terror” propaganda.
The latest victim was hacked to death by two knife-wielding male assailants in front of shocked bystanders in broad daylight. One of the attackers, covered in blood and holding a knife and a meat cleaver, spoke purposely to a mobile phone camera as the young soldier lay bleeding to death nearby.
“This is an eye for an eye,” the man said, with a British accent. He has since been identified by British police as a London-born 28-year-old male of Nigerian descent.
His few words tell much. “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We must fight them. I apologize that women had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same.”
Clearly, the attacker was motivated by revenge for Britain’s never-ending criminal foreign wars and the routine killing of Muslim civilians by British troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere. This is a truth that cannot be dismissed by glib politicians and media.
Within hours of the murder, British rightwing thugs were on the streets of London and other cities baying for blood. Near the scene of the soldier’s killing, in Woolwich, southeast London, hundreds of riot police were clashing with crowds from the English Defence League who chanted: “No surrender to the Muslim scum.”
Urging followers to take the law into their own hands, an EDL spokesman said: “Enough is enough. We have weak leaders. Our police, our leaders tip-toe around this.”
Elsewhere in Britain, two mosques were attacked in Essex and Kent, apparently in revenge for the killing of the soldier in London. In one of those incidents, a man was reportedly armed with a knife and an incendiary device.
While the slaying of the British soldier in London made international headlines, by contrast the countless attacks, and often-fatal assaults, against British Muslims, Asians and Africans that occur in Britain on a daily basis are scarcely reported.
The Institute of Race Relations has compiled hundreds of such attacks on innocent people by white British racist gangs. Often the motive is driven by rabid hatred of “Muslims”. The IRR reports of Asian and African teenagers being attacked in the streets with knives and screwdrivers, elderly people beaten savagely to death, homes and mosques being targeted and terrorized.
This is the incendiary political climate that has descended on Britain today, where fascist paramilitary gangs and rabid individuals carry out wanton attacks on defenseless citizens simply on the basis that the victim is perceived as Muslim or non-white.
Tragically, following the deadly assault on the British soldier in London we can expect a hundred-fold increase in the routine racist reign of terror that Asians and Africans have to endure on a daily basis in British towns and cities.
British Conservative premier David Cameron may appear to be talking with an English stiff-upper lip of how “this will only bring us together and make us stronger”. But he is delusional. British society, fuelled by economic collapse, is a tinderbox of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said following the soldier’s murder: “It is completely wrong to blame this killing on the religion of Islam. But it also equally wrong to try to draw any link between this murder and British foreign policy or the actions of British forces [overseas].”
The London Mayor is as equally deluded as his Conservative Party leader. Of course, it is reprehensible to blame this week’s street killing of a British soldier with Islam. However, try telling that to the mobs of English racists who are now baying for Muslim blood to add to their already daily attacks on Muslims and others. And on his second point, the London Mayor is also in absurd denial of reality.
How else do racist mobs in Britain get their bloodlust and blind hatred, when they see British governments sending troops, drones and helicopter gun-ships into Muslim countries to murder en masse and with impunity?
British society is reaping the racist hatred that its rulers have been sowing for years. No wonder Cameron is chairing emergency meetings with his security agents.
