I think I said before here, what matters is to stop all the fighting, invading, bombing. It is very easy for western politicians to wring their hands and cry freedom and deny any responsibility for what is happening. The other is irrational and filled with hate. Or perhaps not.

NATO have been playing the great game ever since the end of the cold war; overthrowing governments, training and funding any opposition who often consist of the world's nutjobs. When they are killing (hundreds of thousands of) brown people over there that is fine, it's the birth pangs of democracy, cannot make an omelette blah blah. When some of these nutjobs turn up in Europe and god forbid attack (a dozen) white people it is the most evil act on the planet.

What happened in Paris was awful. But it is the responsibility of those who planned and carried it out, not fault of an entire religion. That is a line peddled by those who want the west to continue to interfere and so perpetuate the cycle of killing and revenge. All religions have had their terrorists, people who have abused their moral righteousness (Nazi Germany and Christianity anyone?), yet only islam is singled out for collective guilt.

Reading and hearing what is being said at the moment, if you substituted islam for Judaism or Christianity, or Mohammed for Jesus or Moses, would it be allowed? I really do not think so. It seems we only believe in free speech when it is crudely insulting one religion on the most provocative base terms.

So rather than ratcheting up the hate and blame, how about winding it back a bit?