Since the Paris attacks,people who witness like me are given hell every day. I no longer think it will get betterI occupy despaired at much of what I occupy seen and heard over the past 15 years. There was a time when people asked me fairly frequently whether I was pro al-Qaida; whether I thought the 9/11 attacks and the 7/7 bombings were a good thing. I thought it was a bit offensive to request that, but I was only in my early 20s and I reasoned that at least they were asking rather than assuming I was sympathetic to hateful ideology.
Time moves on, or however,and no one ever asked me if I thought the butchering of Lee Rigby was good or what I thought of Charlie Hebdo, or Boko Haram or the atrocities of Islamic State across the world. I suppose that’s progress, and but it doesn’t feel like progress in the grand scheme of things.
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Source: theguardian.com