An armed group had taken people hostage in a Sydney cafe.
Reminds me of when I first heard about 9-11,
when I was working out in a gym.
This is not a disclaimer.
I truly hope those held hostage are released and get to go home to their families.
So many emotions running through me right now.
Unlike when I first heard about 9-11,
I had no idea what the repercussions were going to be for innocent Muslims.
Now I do.
Man, I'm so skeptical that I wouldn't be surprised if decades later
we found out that it was a false flag operation.
I mean, how convenient for the current Australian government, eh?
Month after month of drumming up fear and hatred of 'those scary Muslims'
to justify expansive, more invasive laws for 'security'.
And suddenly this happen?
I mean, what is the upside for the hostage-takers, really?
The rabid bigots will foam at the mouth screaming that all they care about is
sowing 'terror'.
Right.
But for the Aussie government, hoo boy!
Just what they needed, man.
Who's going to stop them from passing the laws now?
And the bigots who were apprehensive about revealing their true nature
can now bask in self-righteousness in condemning
an entire group of people,
most of whom just want to go to a cafe,
eat at a restaurant,
send their kids to school...
I've already come across so many comments
talking about 'Savage Muslims' against the 'Civilized West'.
Never mind the fact that Muslims in the West are part of their so-called 'Civilized West'.
Never mind the fact that so-called Western countries have been waging incredibly destructive wars
in predominantly Muslim countries decade after decade after decade.
Your cafe is being attacked?
They get attacked in their homes. Captured and tortured while on the way to buy bread.
War is being waged upon them.
Are people really so fucking dense to think that the war will remain firmly within the victims' borders?
I'm tired of formulating logical arguments against these motherfucking bigots.
These are the ones who are willfully blind.
They need to see 'the others' as different from who they are.
The lies they tell themselves as they chant repeatedly in their thick skulls "We are good, we are good!"
No. You're fucking evil.
This incident just drives home the point for me:
Get enough money to retire somewhere quiet, out of the way.
My little girl does not need to hear cowardly grown men shouting at her
for being what she is: A Muslim.
We will live in the countryside,
on a farm with maybe a few goats or sheep. A few chickens maybe. Ponies too, maybe.
Yea that would be nice.
