More victims of the great terror myth

WHY do we still report sordid crime as if it was a political threat? I think it’s because governments like to pose as grandiose defenders of the West against Islamist terror, but lack the courage or resolve to fight against real crime, and the mass drug abuse that causes so much of it.

Take the supposed ‘terrorist’ of Strasbourg, Chérif Chekatt. He had 27 convictions (including, of course, for the drugs he took and sold). He couldn’t have cared less about Islam, as he was just a violent, crooked slob. Neighbours said he was no Islamist but ‘a cornered criminal who’d lost his marbles’.

And a taxi driver whose colleague had been held hostage by the gunman said: ‘I’m a practising Muslim and have never seen him at any of the mosques around here. He smoked too much pot. Friends saw him drinking beer the other day. But there’s nothing religious or radicalised about him.’

I know some twerp will accuse me of apologising for Islamists when I say this, but forget that twerp. Look how useless the ‘security’ approach has been for all these years. Try it my way. Arrest and prosecute drug possession properly again, and you’ll soon see the streets safer in every way.

MANY women, including my colleague Tina Weaver, have felt personally attacked by the BBC’s Christmas film showing how the stresses of modern life come between mothers and their children. They’ve got it wrong. Nobody with any sense thinks mothers are to blame. It’s the militant ultra-feminists who believe full-time motherhood is a crime, the greedy businessmen hungry for female wageslaves, and the governments who have succumbed to these horrible lobbies, who have made women’s lives impossible contests between what they would like to do – and what they have to do.