Ecstatic Spanish supporters celebrate Spain’s World Cup Win!

In Uganda, 72 people watching the final game were blown up!

Friends, life is full of ironies, of extremes. The top picture shows the rapture of Spanish fans as their team clinched the title of the best footballing nation in the world. Look at the faces, the joy, the unbridled excitement.

I did not choose a picture of the carnage that resulted from the suicide bombing in Uganda. You can draw your own mental pictures of what it might’ve looked like, the charred, dismembered bodies of those who, with friends, were happily and innocently watching the Cup Final.

The people who carried out this massacre in Uganda are Islamic extremists. Under different names, they operate all over the Middle East and blowing up innocent people, men, women and children, is their specialty. They try to foment fear, try to punish people who don’t embrace an extreme brand of Islam, the kind that allows the stoning of women who are alleged to have committed adultery, the kind that keeps women in servitude, in bondage. I condemn them strongly.

But then, as you know, I have no time for brutal extremists of any kind. I don’t care if they are Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Hindu, Anarchists, who cares! They are scum who are deranged by their twisted convictions, scum who believe that the ends always justify the means.

For example, in place of the lower picture I could’ve used photographs from Gaza, ones taken while the Israelis carried out their genocide the Xmas before last. I could’ve used photographs taken of Afghan wedding parties that were hit by American missiles.

I could’ve used photographs taken in Pakistan which show the results of drone attacks on what turned out to be civilians. I could’ve shown a recent suicide attack by Islamic extremists in Iran which killed and injured hundreds of people. I could’ve shown photographs taken in India…

The world is full of horrific photographs which show man’s inhumanity to man, inhumanity carried out daily by people of every colour and creed. Let he who is innocent cast the first stone!

The World Cup showed that the nations of the world can come together in peace, can compete fairly, can, for a month, put aside killing and profiting from war.

But evil, greed, and lust for power, which permeates every nation (some much more so than others), never seems to rest. We are the poorer for it yet we allow it to continue.

It’s time to stop the killing, all killing! It’s time to seek a better way, a peaceful way.