I still think they're an extreme minority- but still a very human minority created not by religion but by bombs- and we're being made to see terrorists in our crisp packets and in our cornflakes. You can't indiscriminately kill hundreds of thousands of Muslims without consequences. We've given their victims names, but our own victims are just nebulous clumps of flesh. We're being lead to believe, by a non-stop media onslaught in which ex mental patients-cum-bombers are being tarred with the terrorist brush, that these are all dyed-in-the-wool extremists who were spawned from the crust of the earth with no origin, as angels and demons sell, and stories about hurt, twisted, hardened humans with complicated, painful back-stories involving death and poverty don't.
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