Hate preacher freed to live near prime terror target
I don't think I've ever seen a more passive-aggressive headline than this. Why yes Daily Mail, I'm sure that is the specific purpose for which Abu Qatada has been placed where he has - to make everyone a bit nervous. The Sun goes one further than mere suggestion about proximities by assumption-ating that he "lurks in the shadow of Wembley". I bet his flat comes with complimentary bleach, fertilizer and a little trapdoor with a tunnel too.
Regardless of where they put him, it's always going to be too close to something else for anyone nearby to be comfortable with such a dick living there. Put him in central London, in full view of everyone and their big shiny buildings and it's a kick-start to his terror regime; put him in the outskirts or further away and suddenly he'd be in hiding, furtively furting an evil plan. But isn't it a little offensive to assume that because he's an extremist, he just wants to blow things up? After years of pent-up jail-house West-hating he might have more nuanced plans than the "bomby bomby kabloom" one he's being labelled with.
He may well have no plans to bring us down at all. If I was him and I saw those photographers chasing me down as I got into my ride, I would jump on that cushy media circus train straight away. I could do all the hating I wanted, write a nice bile-fuelled book and then get "papped" with no underwear on. One robe flash and I'd be a star overnight. I would then spend my time Pyrrhically by visiting London's various malls wearing progressively larger backpacks. It would sure beat Jordanian prison torture.
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