I saw my children again today. It’s the first time in a while, in fact, since my last post. Today was poignant, again. Soon after rolling out of bed, I added a few more links to my Misbah collection, a story I will write about soon. Then I noticed that the terror police had struck again. Was it a bookshop? Was it a mosque? Was it an airport? No, this time, it was a Halal Chinese in Borough.
A grey day in London. My kids were ready on time and we proceeded to the West End. Our first stop was John Lewis, where I was buying my eldest her uniform. By the lifts, waiting to go down, some northerners were talking loudly about how they were living in a “terrorist country”. This conversation was deliberatley struck up within earshot of us. I remember John Lewis in the 1970s. People were patronising, but welcoming. They saw a beautiful, charming mother, a father willing to integrate and pull his weight and the son of an immigrant who spoke English better than the white boys. Quite charming.
My headmaster used to get me to read The Telegraph editorial to impressed white parents as his party-piece. It certainly wasn’t mine. And I was six. Of course, I’d sooner eat pork than read The Telegraph today. My headmaster was a lovely man though, and he cared that I did well. Patronising, but welcoming. I miss that honest racism, it didn’t deny my ability to rise as high as I pleased, as long as I never confused myself for a white man.
In the lift, after my children and I entered, the good white folk immediately went quiet. Was it my imagination? No. I’m very sensitive, needlessly so perhaps, but pakis just know, and those people were not happy about having us in the lift. They were bristling and prickly. I couldn’t wait to get my kids out of there.
Americans everywhere, and their nauseating twang reminded me of evangelical Christianists who Christ would detest – rejoicing at the deaths in Lebanon, impervious to the pain of the gang-raped-then-immolated girl in Iraq, her name by the way, for the sake of those detestable, sleeping, complicit-in-rape-and-murder Americans who allowed Bush to adminster such violence through the proxy of his despised army was Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi.
If you are American and don’t speak out against this and the other quarter of a million deaths that have occurred as a direct result of your country’s illegal aggression, based on lies that you bought like the morons you are, then you stand accused of complicity in war crime – and I spit on your worthless flag, like the majority of the world. I spit on the American Flag, because it now symbolises evil. Different time, different flag, but you were created by a great man, Thomas Jefferson, and you have betrayed his ideals.
So much has changed in 25 years. Even Jimmy Carter is sick of Bush. When you have former presidents despising what current presidents are doing, who can honestly be patriotic to that country? “You are with us, or with the terrorists” – which of course means that Mr. Bush, you’re calling President Carter a terrorist. The latter got pilloried for attempting to rescue American hostages in Iran. The former gets his Goebbels-like-press and half his stupid population to back him for killing over 2,500 American troops and 100,000 Iraqi civilians. As the Americans say, “Go figure”
You must think I walk around chippy, with attitude, and a constant, sociopathic aversion to humanity, but but that would only be partly true. I’m still whiter than white, with my perfect London accent, unchanged since my Church school upbringing in the early 1970s, undimmed by hatred, unabashed by taunts of “paki” and “go back home”. My manners, exemplary, doors held opened, pleases and thanks offered graciously. Every opportunity taken to help ladies with prams and suitcases up stairs. Odd, isn’t it? Yes, I wear the London scowl, the standard defence mechanism. Not quite the Stonebridge Strut of a former friend, but a good enough barrier nonetheless. This melts away at a moment’s notice, when needed. Go figure…
So my kids and I were at an Indian restaurant, Woodlands if you’re interested, a nice, but expensive vegetarian place off Marylebone High Street; where I had taken them to treat them. A gaggle of Americans with mid-west accents were drawling on about terrorism. I was reminded of Haditha and Mahmoudiya – interesting how these rapes and murders are depersonalised by being ascribed the names of towns. Is it because Fox can’t get the names of Muslims right? Or is it because Muslims, like their names, don’t matter?
Anyhow, all I could think of was death in Iraq at the hands of their country, whilst they were off on holiday, like German soldiers in Vichy France, enjoying the bent-over provenance of our Yoblair-surrendered-country. They started talking about terrorism. How interesting. I mumbled. My daughter thought I mumbled “tourism”. I burst out laughing. Here were the real terrorist tourists, enjoying a meal while their countrymen murdered and raped in Iraq. Then of course, so was I. Except that I write against it. I despise it. I revile it. Then again, so might they. I was confused. All I knew was that they were Americans and they only started talking about terrorism once they had caught my eye.
I felt like shouting “Allahu Akbar!!” – I laughed at this thought, then took my daughters home, noticing Ken’s “WE ARE LONDONERS” signs everywhere in town on the way back. I like Ken, he means well, but I couldn’t help but recall “Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!”
Yes Ken, we are Londoners, but we are certainly not one.
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First and foremost, so happy to know that you finally got to see and spend with your daughters. So happy for you.
Shahid, your posts are so great because they present a picture of London that one rarely gets to read about. The whole post 9-11 environment, the insanity of racial profiling, the biases, the prejudices that one confronts as a British citizen of asian origin – it is extremely upsetting.
Although I’ve had suffered through my own experiences of racism in the UK, I cannot even fathom what it must feel like for you as England is home, it is your country…
I pray that people wake up to this insanity, the lies and the hatred that the government is purposely inciting and propogating. Hope springs eternal…
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To Build the Impossible Bomb
Muslims were planning to blow up a bunch of jetliners enroute from London to America – or so say George Bush and Tony Blair.
Muslims without tickets.
Muslims without passports.
Muslims without bombs.
Muslims without a clue … and they aren’t the only ones, it turns out. Without a clue, that is.
What kind of bombs? TATP bombs, short for triacetone triperoxide. What’s more, Bush and Blair told us that Muslims favor the TATP bomb, mixed on the spot with separate liquids. With that lie, both Bush and Blair foreclosed any possibility that the Muslims involved actually were guilty. With that lie, both Bush and Blair disclosed themselves for the treasonous, lying criminals that they are. Why? Glad you asked.
You see … it can’t be done. It quite simply cannot be done. Not in any airplane toilet. Not with any resources that might be available aboard any airplane other than Tom Swift’s Flying Lab. Not with the time afforded by a Trans-Atlantic flight. And certainly – not by anybody without chemistry lab training and experience – not under the circumstances claimed, anyway.
If Muslims favor TATP bombs – and there is evidence to support the claim that Muslims use TATP bombs – then Muslims who might do so know full well the limitations and hazards inherent to such an explosive. No Muslim in his right mind would attempt what has been claimed, because he would know it can’t be done – and, believe me, doing it under any circumstances would require a Muslim in his right mind. At best, the guy simply would kill himself, and do little damage to the plane’s toilet. Regardless, nobody would be allowed the opportunity to spend hours in the toilet … not aboard a jetliner. In a moment, I will prove to you why TATP simply cannot be made aboard jetliners, but first, please be really clear about the significance of that fact: that it conclusively proves Bush and Blair to be lying weasels. Not just dumb. Not just stupid. Lying, treasonous, unforgivable, murdering bastards.
TATP or Not TATP? – That is the Question
A friend with a doctorate in chemistry sent me the following:
“According to the official government story, TATP (triacetone triperoxide) was the explosive these conspirators were planning to manufacture aboard the airliners.
“This story is not plausible for a number of reasons, but let’s take a quick look at just enough of the science so as not to provide anybody with a guide to making an actual bomb: TATP is made from hydrogen peroxide solution, acetone and sulfuric acid. The reaction can be carried out with just about any concentration, but is best done with concentrated solutions of both peroxide and acetone.
“The peroxide and acetone can be pre-mixed, but the acid must be added, a drop at a time, to the solution, all the while continuously stirring it and keeping it continuously chilled. This step of the process will take several hours, during which the fumes given off will be substantial and quite overpowering, thus a lab-quality air evacuation system is required. (ES: right here, the whole idea of a TATP bomb becomes ludicrous. Difficult in a lab, but impossible in an airplane due to the environment – the toilet – and the time requirement.)
“One then must let the resulting solution stand for an extended period at temperatures above the freezing point, but definitely below 10 Celsius (50 Fahrenheit). Above 10 Celsius, the TATP does not form; instead, diperoxide forms, which is so unstable it cannot be worked with. The time required for the reaction to go to completion is at least 24 hours and often several days.
“Once the TATP forms, it crystallizes as snowflakes from the solution and must be harvested by filtration and the liquid discarded. The TATP then is dried and carefully stored until needed. It must be stored below 10 Celsius or it converts spontaneously to the unstable diperoxide.
“There is neither the time, the workspace nor the other materials required to make TATP on an airliner. The time required, the temperatures required, the workspace required and the need to dry the chemical prior to use preclude this story being reasonable. This chemical process is much more sensitive than making, for example, nitroglycerin.”
The technically proficient reading this will recognize that a necessary step has been omitted and some others have been altered in critical ways. None of these purposeful camouflages alter the ingredients or the time, care and equipment required. Nor will I describe how TATP can be fabricated beforehand and then detonated aboard an airliner in flight. After all, though we want to demonstrate the impossibility of what has been claimed, we don’t want anybody actually trying this at home – and there really are some genuine whack jobs out there. After all, we elect some of them to public office.
An excellent (and humorous) on-line discussion by British writer Thomas Greene, also as to why TATP simply cannot be made aboard a plane: “Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?” Mr. Greene agrees with my friend, the PhD in chemistry, and concludes his description of the process of creating TATP with: “So the fabled binary liquid explosive – that is, the sudden mixing of hydrogen peroxide and acetone with sulfuric acid to create a plane-killing explosion, is out of the question.”
So it’s impossible to make TATP as claimed, yet still they confiscate liquids from us, including sodas and baby formula, not to mention toothpaste and, even, lipsticks? Even if possible to make TATP as claimed, the individual smells of peroxide, acetone and sulfuric acid are obvious enough to preclude people having to be shaken down and terrorized by the airport Gestapo in this fashion. You have to wonder: Just exactly what is going on?
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Incidentally, British officials often claim that the “London 7/7″ train/bus bombings, without any proof whatsoever, were done by Muslims with TATP in their backpacks. Those explosions, per eyewitnesses, came from beneath the floors, where the explosive had to have been placed earlier, then detonated either remotely or via timer. And Blair fed Bush some of the lies he has been caught out in by so many. Need any more proof that Blair is a liar, as well?
Did you know that, with a huge and increasingly restless Muslim population in England, only 12% of all British Muslims arrested on terror charges ever end up being charged with a crime, while only 2% get convicted, almost always of something minor and never of anything related to terrorism? You heard about the arrests, though, didn’t you? Why the difference? Because the war on terror quite simply is a war on us, not on Muslims.
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http://www.rense.com/general73/terplot.htm
most of this info is not mine, but i think it must be read
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great post my friend.
dont u just love how ‘we’ are always the ones who are asked to compromise and yet it is ‘we’ who are always being treated like second rate citizens? where ever we may be?
Interesting Blog. However the way you put things makes me think that, for you, the Brits can’t win. If they’re openly antagonistic – they’re racists. If they SEEM antagonistic – they’re racists. If they’re nice they’re condescending and hence – they’re racists. Give the guys a break.
I’m sorry you and the Indian descended/Muslim populations are having a rough time of it at the moment but I’m afraid, speaking as an Irishman, it’s natural. There is massive fear at the moment of Islamic violence (stirred up to an extent by the press I agree) and naturaly people will react negatively whether that fear is justified or not. It’s human nature. We had to put up with it throughout the Troubles and now, unfortunately, it’s your turn. The community could probably make life easier for itself if it started condeming things with a bit more volume, and not see incompatabilities between cultures as outright attacks. And sorry it is for you guys to “give” not the host population – no matter how unfair it is – your not a member of the wider community until many generations have passed and they see you as such – or rather fail to see you as different. Assimilation is a very slow process.
BTW 12% arrested, 2% charged. That’s not something you have much right to feel resentment about. It’s actually very near the same figures for rape.
@ moflard
Have a watch of Ludicrous Diversion for some of the links between what is happening now and what happened to many innocent Irish people:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4943675105275097719
On the subject of London….
@Bridget Dunne
Just watched the vid. Not sure about the conspiracy theory about the bombings, seems to rely too much on supposition. But yes, Britain’s becoming a Police State, a process that started with Thatcher and her disciple Blair just is just continuing it. And believe me, I’ve known for some time that if I want to murder someone the best course of action is to join the Police and be paid for the job.
That’s why I’m emigrating in the next couple of years. At least the Spanish remember the cost of fascism, I thinks the Brits have become just too complacent, well and damn stupid as well.
“why fear ID cards if you’ve nothing to hide?” now there’s a lemming talking.
@moflard:
If you get some lemming spouting that line at you, just respond casually:
“If you’ve got nothing to hide, you won’t mind me watching you fuck your wife/husband after I’ve finished uploading your credit card details onto the web”
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