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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

it's world war three and we don't care

it's world war three and we don't care
Current mood: contemplative

So i woke up from my drug induced sleep to read all about the apprehension of a "terrorist" suspect in Birmingham. Have you ever been there?. I have. It was an unscheduled side trip to visit a friend's future in-law who wasn't doing so well. There's two Birminghams you know.
One side is the typical Brit life. Very quiet. Very Northern England. The Other is really all of us brown people. I felt at home because everywhere i look there was a Halal food store or an Indian market shop. There were loads of South Asians and Malaysians there.


This is world war three because it's basically East vs West. It's sadly Christian/Cath/White/Rich/Developed/right wing/segregationists against the East/the Other/Muslims. The focal point was 9/11 as that gave the US and excuse for hegemony. Get a link between The Taliban-Al Qaeda-Osam;enough reason to go all out in Afghanistan. Falsify and manufacture WMDs,go and invade Iraq. Topple the dictator that was placed by yourselves ages ago. How smart. How classy. How presumptous.


Now, will the English go one better than the Americans?.
Will there be reflection why this happened?.
Why did British born people go and create fear in their own country?.

Bear in mind,England is their homeland. Not the South Asian nations where their parents came from. That only determines their ethnicity not their nationality. Case in point, if ethnicity determined nationality i could claim India/Indonesia/?Iran/Portugal as my homeland since i have mixed blood. But, i identify as malaysian as that's where i was born.


No one really cares that it's World War Three. After all,if we can afford to eat,splash out unnecessarily on clothes and accessories (who really needs more than 1-2 sunglasses?), buy big flashy gas guzzling vehicles and max out our credit cards..why bother with all the nonsense that's going on in the world?.

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