Last week before the attack I was speaking with a muslim, who told me “my religion is in here [points to chest]. My religion is being kind and decent to others. My religion is appreciating the beauty of the world and all its people. That’s my religion.” The only time he goes to mosque is when he’s back in his home town, since his dad is the uh, priest-guy, and naturally he respects his elders. I give him to you as an example because that was just last week, but he’s pretty typical of all the muslims I know here in Paris. They aren’t practising. They eat hallal but otherwise you’d never spot them, because they are too busy going out to nightclubs, smoking cigarettes or dope, trying to get laid, watching football and drinking beers with me at the pub, all the normal things that any other Parisian does to pass the time.
The idea that I would say to such a guy, “this mess is your responsibility and you need to do something about it,” is so fucking stupid and bigoted that I can’t even countenance it. What would he do? Even if he did go to mosque and was an active part of the practising muslim community it wouldn’t help because the actual perpetrators aren’t either of those things. They don’t take their orders from the Koran or anyone in a mosque, they take their orders from rich warlords who are involved in a straight up power grab, who use religion as an excuse in the exact same way GWB told us all he received divine guidance that told him to invade Iraq and bag up all the oil.
ISIS is doing everything it can to get us to lump all muslims in with them, and there you go lumping the shit out of them. Fool.
