Jonathan Sacerdoti
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With the guys, they might be gay, and that in itself would bring dishonour and shame on them and their families.
Or there may be other things that they've done which somehow cast them in their own value system as failures and losers.
And so what this does, it takes them from zero to hero.
If you can carry out a martyrdom operation and kill infidels, then you are immediately elevated to this heroic position which will bring glory on your family, on yourself, and then in heaven you are rewarded with all the things we're familiar with from the Islamic faith.
And so I do feel that in these cases, often the notion of violent jihad, of terrorism, of martyrdom,
deliberately looks for those who are failures, those who have a sense of dissatisfaction with their own lives and offers them this magnificent admiration if they should carry out this brutal act.
The Saturday people first, the Sunday people is important.
But I always say this to people, especially here in Britain.
You know, those two Jews got killed in Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur.
But actually, despite people like me saying for years, guys, take this seriously, take this seriously, they're trying to kill us.
Actually, the number of Jews killed for being Jews in this country is really low.
There were attacks foiled.
There have been plenty of attacks and threats to us.
But the number of Brits killed by the same jihadist ideology, much higher.
Manchester Arena, that wasn't an attack on Jews.
That was an attack on little girls, basically, enjoying music, an Ariana Grande concert.
Now, I stood outside there and reported on it for days in the aftermath.
And what were we told?
Our love is stronger than their hate and we must all unite and fight.
You know, somebody will play that moronic John Lennon imagine, and this is our reaction as a population.