At 9.46am on 7 July 2005, a No30 double-decker bus was drawing into Tavistock square. It shouldn’t have been there. But that morning, London’s transport network had descended into chaos. Throughout the Euston Road area, buses packed with the now late rush-hour crowds were being sent on diverted routes. Including the No30 to Hackney Wick making its way through Tavistock Square. On this particular bus, however, there was one passenger who was not off to work, or to college or even for a spot of sight-seeing. Eighteen-year-old Hasib Hussain was instead looking for an opportunity to detonate the bomb hidden inside his rucksack. At 9.47am, Hussain found that opportunity. The subsequent blast tore the bus apart, ripping through those closest to it. Hussain killed himself and 12 innocents, and injured many more.

It soon emerged that the carnage in Tavistock Square was the fourth and final act in an orchestrated suicide-bombing campaign, carried out by a gang of British jihadists.
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And so on 7 July 2005, four young men arrived at London’s Kings Cross station with a plan to kill themselves and as many of us as possible. Because they believed they were pure, and we were not. It was an atrocity made possible not by the war in Iraq, but by a vicious Muslim identity politics. A vicious Muslim identity politics encouraged by Britain’s own elites just as much as by overseas Islamists.

This is why 7/7 has become the forgotten atrocity. Why Britain’s deadliest terror attack of the 21st century has left so little cultural imprint, and has had so little political impact. Because it raises uncomfortable questions, particularly about multiculturalism and integration, that the authorities do not want asked. But until we’re prepared to reckon with the homegrown sources of 7/7, the lessons from this calamity will remain steadfastly unlearned.
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Brian Ross wrote on Jul 7^th, 2025 at 5:47pm:

Tut tut at this, despicable, snivelling moron:




After Gill Hicks was rescued from the wreckage of a tube train following London's 7/7 terrorist attacks in 2005, she was so severely injured her hospital identification wristband read, "One unknown — estimated female".

"Becoming Gill again has been a really interesting quest over 20 years," she tells the ABC after arriving back in London from Adelaide for commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of that devastating day.

"It's been 20 years of finding the threads of who I once was and 20 years of discovering who I am now."

Back in 2005, Ms Hicks, then aged 37, was working as the head curator at the Design Council in London.

On July 7, she was on her way to work during the morning rush hour when a suicide bomber targeted her carriage as it travelled between King's Cross and Russell Square.

In what was a coordinated terrorist attack, another three suicide bombers detonated devices on two more underground trains and a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700.

The Australian remembers using her scarf as a tourniquet around what was left of her legs to try to stop the bleeding while she waited for help to arrive.

She was the last survivor to be pulled from the smoke-filled carriage about an hour after the blast.

"My life was saved as 'one unknown', and it didn't matter if I was Gill Hicks or who I was, the efforts that people went to, to give their all to save this 'one unknown', that's shaped me," Ms Hicks says.

"And they're things I take away from London, that on that day in the aftermath, I was loved unconditionally as a human being."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/australian-survivor-marks-twenty-years-si...

A Freedom of Information investigation by Sky News has unearthed an internal ABC policy document titled, 50:50 Equality Project, which specifies diversity quotas for contacts to be used by ABC journalists in their interviews and reports. Women, for example, must comprise 50 per cent of all cited contacts whilst ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD)people (the bureaucratic term for black, brown and other off-white folk) must appear in 15 per cent of reports.  Indigenes must make up 3.4 per cent of story interviewees/contacts, and eight per cent of all people must be disabled.
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How are ABC journalists to measure the diversity of those they interview or contact for comment?  Well, they are to use visual and oral clues to determine ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) people. “How they look”, “how they sound” and names are some of the clues. Just guessing, but ‘Muhammed’ might be one such clue.

Of course this is nothing like the bad ‘racial profiling’ that horrid (white) racists get up.



Oh, no, of course not!! It's respecting identity ...er.... diversity. Races are not real, only  diversity and vibrant variety of identities are real. Oh. yes.

Irving Kristol, the American ­neo-conservative thinker, said that left-wing solutions tended to compound the problems they sought to solve. Starting in the 1960s, reducing rates of crime, poverty and drugs were the focus of progressive policymaking. By the 1980s, each had increased.

Ronald Reagan quipped that Democrats had declared a war on poverty, but poverty won. Could the same be true of racism?

Could it be that the more progressives demand anti-racism, the more racism they end up with? That racism is winning the more the left wages a war on it?

I think Kristol’s maxim holds. Consider two arguments. First, that anti-racism generates a demand for racism for which a supply must be found. Second, that while inspired by some very good motives, anti-racism is prone to radical capture. As we have become more anti-racist we have ­become, ironically and but not ­accidentally, more anti-Semitic.
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To put this another way, we have seen a rise in racism because we have employed more people with an interest in finding it. And, as Upton Sinclair wryly noted: “No man has an interest in knowing something that will put him out of a job.”

The University of Michigan was a prolific spender on anti-­racism strategies. Its diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy was huge. Its 142 DEI staff (“diversicrats”) cost more than $US18m ($27m) in annual salaries. And yet, as the liberal New York Times reported, race relations on the Michigan campus got worse.

Anti-racism has become a required opinion across the Australian public sector. Universities can’t get enough of it. It has become a cure-all for all sorts of discrimination, real and imagined. It is a pristine form of American cultural imperialism, honed on US campuses, and absorbed on ours. Michigan was evidence that it does the opposite of what was intended.

The second argument follows the first: anti-racism invites extremism. It is inspired by some of the finest ambitions and animates decent people who abhor the scourge of racism and want to end it. I am on their side. The problem is how far this kindness doctrine gets co-opted by a much more radical conception of anti-racism.

A UK government report this month revealed what we already knew: British universities, where anti-racism is increasingly a belief required of its staff, have become hotbeds of protest against the world’s only Jewish state.

Many academics see opposition to Israel as modish. Racism gets you fired; intellectual Israelophobia gets you hired.

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Some of the developing world’s worst dictators learned their Marxism in the lecture halls of Western universities. The African elites that took over when the British and French quit the scene quickly adopted anti-Zionism as their mantra. The United Nations became a global forum for it.

Israel jumped from the oppressed into the oppressor column. It has never been forgiven for ­winning the wars started by its ­“oppressed” enemies. A Zionism that was meant to give Jews a ­security denied them everywhere else was redefined into a racism that must be opposed in the one place it had a chance of survival.
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Irving Kristol and Ronald Reagan began their ideological journeys on the left. Kristol was a Trotskyist, Reagan a Democrat. This gave them a crucial insight into their subsequent opponents. It was not the malevolence of progressives that made them dangerous, but their good intentions.

And so it is with anti-racism. A strategy that wants us all to get along is, in practice, dividing us ­racially. Rather than check racism, it has, accidentally and on purpose, helped rebirth its most ancient form.

Timothy J. Lynch is professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne.

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 12:15pm:



Nor does literature, art, friendship, philosophy, oral history, Dreamtime myths, welcome to country, culture, customs, political and religious world views, sharing law, belief in the Koran, in woodo, etc, etc.  A lot of human interactions and sense-making of the world and each other have no scientific basis.

Not to mention that a Doctor of Divinitg has no scientific basis.

You have a gay stalker in Brian, Frank.
Charge your taser.

Frank wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 11:06pm:


I worked with Muslims on a scientific basis, occasionally on scientific projects, Soren.  i socialised with Muslims on a non-scientific basis.  That is far more than you have ever done, Soren.  You'd cross the street rather than travel on the same footpath as a Muslim.  Your Racism knows no bounds.  Your Islamophobia knows no bounds.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Frank wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 11:29pm:


Oh, dearie, dearie, me, you wouldn't know any science, Soren, afterall you're a Trick-Cyclist and we all know, they practice dark magic, rather than science.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...