“...Allah u akbar," do you say the people are dead because of Islam?”
Many people are dead in the cause of Islamic Fundamental Extremists.
As a lefty remainer I am sure this is true but am able to understand the distinction between murderous jihadis and the vast majority of rational peaceful Muslims who are themselves subject to discrimination and hate crimes. Due to both good old fashioned racism / xenophobia and because of being lumped in with jihadis.
Jo Brand is straddling the fault lines in a quake. We have Trans Tights Activists declaring that anyone who says sex is a biological state that cannot be changed (however fluid gender may be) is committing ‘literal violence ‘. If express publicly that we do not agree that a penis can be a female body part, we can be investigated by the police or lose our jobs.
Our Universities are places where our supposedly brightest and best minds have decreed that ideas not on message must be suppressed and their proposers be No Platformed, sacked and vilified on social media. With threats of actual violence.
The liberal left have been to blame here. Supporting a silencing of voices that challenge ideas.
People do not like to be shut up and silenced.
Whatever else went on in Brexit, whatever the economic and political pros and cons of EU membership, the failure to listen to various communities and the subsequent appalling vilification and personal insults to Leavers have been catastrophic in maintaining civilised debate.
The context in which JB’s comments were made is out of whack.