As we all heard and saw was truly something out of the blue. Nobody has seen riots of the kind in London, where people went on a rampage burning down shops and looting. It kinda reminded me of the scenes from Iraq when Americans toppled the regime, everybody went on a looting spree. But obviously you cannot compare the two, but it seems like at the lower level of society there is a similar desperation. We may not see it on a day to day basis, but the poverty in London/United Kingdom is quite bad. Even with benefits people are struggling to get through the day. The youth who were involved in the riots mostly come from broken families, where they don't have any father figure in the house. These council estates are really bad for young kids as all kinds of things happen there. You have drug dealers hanging around, you have bad influence all around and the kids can easily get sucked into that bad company and be affected. The single mothers wouldn't be able to make much of a difference as they wont be able to control their kids. This leads to hopelessness on the part of the kids and they dont really have an aim in life. They just hang around on the streets looking for something to do. So it doesn't come as a suprise to be honest that the society of United Kingdom is crumbling. We would talk about 3rd world countries and think how on Earth people over there could carry out disgusting acts, but now it has come to the western developed world also. With inflation and economic problems they are also facing extreme challenges.
Out of all of this what I can say is that British soldiers are out there in foreign lands trying to change nations, which cannot be changed. They lose their soldiers on a daily basis and waste millions of Pounds. Imagine if they didn't spend that money on war and rather spent it on their people. They wouldn't be having any problem. One English guy was saying they should bring back those troops and they could look after the country, it would make the place more safer! One other point to note is that muslims were not involved in these riots. For so long, muslims were the targets. Everytime muslims would be labelled as not integrating in society and creating problems for the nation. There were debates on the Burka and all kinds of issues. But they failed to tackle the real problems. Their youth are living lives which don't seem to be getting them anywhere, except ending up in carrying out crimes as an occupation or a hobby. Those youths are more of an issue than whether a woman wears a Burka or not. How much money was lost in these riots? Yes we should understand the reason why it happened, the same way we should understand what makes people carry out violent attacks around the world. Everything happens as a reaction or reason. So no matter how bad the acts are you have to understand it so that it don't happen again. Cure is better than prevention. If you can cure easily, why worry about wasting enery and resources on prevention??
This is a great article (though surprisingly from the daily mail!)
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There are times I think the governement isn't all to blame, as the society itself has lost it's morals. Parents genuinely allow their kids to binge drink at 18, or be homeless to fend for themselves, and aren't firm about their childrens marriages when they turn up pregnant before they've even touched 16 (hence the increase in single parents) and many more such examples that lead to a broken society. Surely the governement can't nanny on this too?
Nevertheless, we do live in a nanny culture so that's why the governement is always blamed, but why have the citizens even allowed No 10 to play that role? Something somewhere went seriously wrong.
You'll like the DM article, I surely found it brilliant.
Yea that article stresses the importance of faith. Obviously those who carry out such acts do not recognise faith at the moment of carrying out the act.
ReplyDeleteObviously the government isn't to blame solely for all the troubles. But like one black person said they imprison the parents who decide to discipline their kids. No doubt child abuse is one thing and disciplining your child by a slap or something similar is another thing...
But we do find that the culture of disrespect is growing in UK and the youth are not given any opportunities to go out and do something productive. For example in my area there are no free tennis courts. Most of the time they are empty. Most of the football pitches you have to pay money and so on. Like when I was younger we had a local park next to us and because of my parents upbringing I knew not to get influenced by the people coming there. But these teenagers have no proper family to tell them what to do. They are mainly single mothers, so if they hang about with bad company they will definately be affected. So if they were able to access free faciilities and get to do sports, maybe their energy will be directed away from that. The situation is more complex than that but that is a starting point.