Nobody seems to care when our friends from the Most Peaceful Religion slaughter each other

weekend blog

I suppose there will be another huge hate march in London this weekend accusing Israel of murder and genocide and whatever. None of us knows how many civilians have been killed in Gaza – anyone who trusts anything said by the ludicrously-misnamed Hamas-run Gaza Health Authority needs their head examined. But what I find odd and even confusing is that we didn’t have any of these massive protests demanding a ceasfire and humanitarian aid when our friends from our favourite religion were busy slaughtering each other with a gusto the Israelis could never match:

• It’s estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 people died in the 8 years of the Iran/Iraq war from 1980 to 1988. But I don’t remember seeing any mobs protesting about this and demanding a ceasfire
• In the Syria civil war the Syrian Network for Human Rights has stated it had documented 230,784 civilian deaths and 14 million displaced between March 2011 and October 2023. According to the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 164,223 civilians had been killed between March 2011 and March 2024. But I don’t remember seeing any mobs protesting about this and demanding a ceasfire.
• According to the UN, over 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen, as well as estimates of more than 227,000 dead as a result of an ongoing famine and lack of healthcare facilities due to the war. But I don’t remember seeing any mobs protesting about this and demanding a ceasfire.

So that’s over 750,000 of our friends from the world’s bestest religion slaughtered by their co-religionists and yet no sign of any outraged mobs marching through London to protest about that.

Or we could look at something else – the numbers of Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and anyone else who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time killed each year in Jihadi attacks:

• In the last 30 days there were 148 Islamic attacks in 20 countries, in which 690 people were killed and 500 injured
• In 2023 there were 1,780 Islamic attacks in 54 countries, in which 11,422 people were killed and 12,990 injured
• In 2022 there were 1,998 Islamic attacks in 52 countries, in which 9,025 people were killed and 6,815 injured
• In 2021 there were 2,280 Islamic attacks in 54 countries, in which 11,830 people were killed and 9,595 injured
• In 2020 there were 2,182 Islamic attacks in 54 countries, in which 10,251 people were killed and 7,749 injured
• In 2019  there were 1,764 Islamic attacks in 54 countries, in which 10,526 people were killed and 10,725 injured
• In 2018 there were 2,005 Islamic attacks in 55 countries, in which 11,885 people were killed and 11,533 injured
• I could go on, but you probably get the picture by now

So, it would seem that the real reasons for the screaming, foam-flecked mobs staging their weekly protests can have very little to do with any genuine concern for our Arabian friends. Of course, there will be many reasons why people attend these marches:

• the return of anti-semitism
• ignorance about the Middle East as shown by the thick-as-mince members of ‘Queers for Palestine’
• narcissists looking for a cause which will allow them to virtue-signal to make themselves seem righteous and important
• anti-West and anti-democracy hatred of the only country in the Middle East which is reasonably free, advanced and democratic
• the ‘tall poppy syndrome’ – loathing of Israel because the country shows up its arab neighbours for being useless, corrupt, incompetently-ruled, excrement-covered, backwards hell-holes
• and much more