Aren't you tired..?
On the pogrom at Bondi Beach
“Allahu Akbar!”
A phrase many have heard - and will continue to hear - right before they are murdered in cold blood. It may come from mass shootings, it may come from suicide bombings, it may come from a vehicle being used to mow down pedestrians.
It’ll be at a synagogue, or a Christmas market, or a cinema, or a sports stadium. Maybe The Bataclan. Or Taj Hotel. Maybe in Bali or Manchester. Maybe Stockholm or New York. Maybe at an Ariana Grande concert, or the offices of a satirical magazine.
Then we’ll take to Twitter and Instagram. Posting “Thoughts and Prayers”. Politicians telling us about their mental state - “I am appalled by the…”, as if it’s at all relevant. Muslim talking heads will initially play the same game, before eventually resorting to Whataboutism, and fake equivalency. Simultaneously, they’ll continue the lie that this had nothing to do with Islam, and don’t you know that Anders Breivik was a white guy?
Candace Owens and her ilk will start saying it was all a false flag, conducted by Israel to [fill in blank]. They’ll be rightly mocked.
Hashtags will appear - #StandWith[fill in blank]. AI images meant to express pointless solidarity shared ad nauseum.
Politicians will talk about how this must not divide us, that diversity, don’t you know, is our strength, that we shouldn’t look back in anger.
Most importantly, we must not allow this tragedy to affect our Muslim citizens! Islamophobia will run rampant, if we don’t nip it in the bud!
Decent thinkers will write articles about how we must wake up to the threat of Islamism - for the umpteenth time. It’ll be shared, liked and retweeted a lot on social media, and then forgotten about.
Mehdi Hasan will go to ChatGPT and look for “Terrorist attacks by white assailants”, and then read out the results from a piece of paper on Piers Morgan’s braindead show.
And then… we forget. We get on with our lives.
Until the next time.
When someone shouts “Allahu Akbar” in a crowded place. Maiming and killing dozens, if not hundreds.
And we’ll take to Twitter and Instagram. Posting “Thoughts and Prayers”. Politicians tell us about how they feel appalled, as if their mental state has any relevance. Muslim talking heads will initially play the same game, before eventually resorting to Whataboutism… They’ll make sure to remind you of the Vegas shooter, who was white, don’t you know.
And so it goes. Again. And again. And again.
Aren’t you tired yet?
