Take care in this brave new world of ours
not to be too offended when suicide bombers
target your favourite night-spot, pizza joint
sports bar, bus terminal, house of worship. If
anything dreadful happens, it's your fault for
being in the wrong place at the right time. Take
responsibility, as a mature adult in a changed
world. If it upsets your moral compass that
in response to an orchestrated orgy of violence
that saw girls and women gang-raped, children
and their parents forced to watch as each is
mutilated before death, vehicles stopped on
highways when drivers and passengers are
summarily shot to death, the elderly and the ill
along with infants and teens taken hostage
people gather in great raucous crowds to chant
congratulations to the courageous terrorists who
carried out this daring enterprise of great courage.
If you feel disturbed that places of worship are
fire-bombed, and it makes you feel queasy that
honour killings are perpetrated on women who
don't know their place, keep it to yourself, do.
Cleanse your mind of these unfashionable urges
to condemn rapists and mass murderers else
you will be recognized and judged Islamophobic.