Bigotry

  I really cannot abide ignorance and bigotry.
Unfortunately there is too much of it in the world today. In this post i want to try and talk about my views on the quite frankly disgusting discrimination against ALL Muslims. Now before i get people screaming at me about the atrocities committed by disturbed men and women in the name of Islam let me state that I in no way, shape or form sympathise with or condone what those sickos do! 

 What i am talking about here in this post is the decent, peaceful, hard working Muslims who contribute to society and would never dream of hurting anyone. These people are being banded in with the sickos when they are in fact just as disgusted by what the extremists do as you are.

  I have friends and family who would normally never dream of being xenophobic or hateful towards someone because of their colour or religion and yet because of recent events have been seen to post all sorts of anti Islam pictures, comments and frankly, vile slurs against all Muslims.

  Recently in the UK an innocent young soldier was murdered. In broad daylight, in the street, by two men who were apparently Muslim extremists. Obviously the perpetrators of this sick and vile act should be punished as severely as possible. Again as i said before i do not sympathise with these disgusting excuses for human beings nor am I condoning anything they have done.  What I am doing though is venting my...disappointment i guess i would call it, disappointment in the reaction of society. Yes, we SHOULD be angry. We SHOULD be outraged. we SHOULD demand they get punished and that things like this aren't allowed to happen again. What we SHOULDN'T do is post pictures, comments etc like "Kill all Muslims" or "Lets go Nigger Hunting!" (Yes, sadly this was an actual comment i saw shortly after the Woolwich atrocity in which the murderer was a black Muslim.)

  Not all Muslims are terrorists. They are just as horrified by the extremists as we are. Decent, non extremist Muslim leaders have spoken out very publicly about this. They want to stop this stuff happening just as much as we do. I know people are sickened and angry by what happened but it didn't happen just because they are followers of Islam, it happened because they were sick in the head and an equally sick in the head person incited hatred in their hearts for their fellow human beings.

  Before you post comments or pictures screaming for all Muslim's to be hanged or worse, just stop and think for a second. By allowing the racial/religious hatred to be stirred in our hearts we are playing straight into the extremist's dirty hands. They want us to be divided, they want us to be scared in our own country, they want the fear and hatred to explode and bring us to our knees whilst they sit back and watch it all whilst rubbing their hands together at the fact that their sick as hell plans are working.

 I really debated for a long time whether to publish this post at all but at the end of the day i feel this needs saying and i would rather be yelled at (again) for pointing out things i have said here today than to sit back and watch ourselves be turned against each other. Once we allow the hate inside our souls it is a slippery slope. It's Muslims now....whats next? :(

I'm back...For now!

  I haven't posted here for a long time. In fact i hadn't even thought about this blog for months, forgot i had even done it. But today i felt like writing. When i wrote on this blog before yes it was an outlet for me but mainly i was trying to write what i thought people would think was interesting. Well this time i'm writing for me so if its boring then meh so be it. If it makes me feel better that's what matters right?

 I have decided to try and make myself a better person. This isn't self pitying crap, it's a fact. Sometimes i can be fucking hell to be around and i intend to change. I want to be better for me, for my son and for my partner. But mainly for me to be honest. I know that sounds selfish but it is actually probably a good thing. You can only change if you TRULY want to. You have to do it for yourself or you never really change at all, you just get better at masking it.

 I drink too much. I know i do. I have issues which are only made worse by the drink that i use to try and find solace from my issues. Lol how stupid is that? Trying to medicate myself against myself by drinking and it only makes the issues worse! Today i am waking up. I have been drifting in a sea of self pity and fear for too long and now i am kicking myself in the ass and getting my shit together. 

 So, i guess this is going to be kind of a diary of me getting my shit together. If no-one reads it then its no biggy, in fact its probably better that they don't because i am going to be brutally honest as much as i can. If you are reading this then umm hi! thanks for reading and i hope you don't fall into a coma from the boredom! :p

 There is a distinct possibility that i will stop writing here again. I have a bad tendency to flit between hobbies etc. I will find something new, get completely sucked into it almost to the point of obsession and then all of a sudden lose interest and stop doing it just like that. So, um yeah, enough rambling. This is my blog, if you are reading it then welcome to the ups and downs of me (unless i get bored or something!)