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I was being nosey on facebook last night, as you do, when the live feed thing updated notifying me that my friend had joined a group. The title was relatively innocent, patriotism in a nice way. I thought it was one of those things supporting traditional "Britishness", National Anthem, Christmas, Union Jack, Patron Saints, right down to baa baa black sheep and golliwogs which are now deemed to be racist. I thought it was one of those groups highlighting the absurdity of changing our ways of thousands of years and support of our own nation and traditions because it offends the non-British living in Britain. And yes, I do think it is absurd that children in schools have to now sing "baa baa rainbow sheep".
Anyway, I clicked into the group to see what it was all about and other peoples opinions, as many of these PC changes have been since I left so I like to keep up to date. Whilst I did find some interesting things and very insightful comments, I also found many BNP type comments, and many more addressing the issue of terrorism - again some justified, many from people who clearly have very little understanding of the Islamic culture and the minority of extremists. One particular link caught my eye, titled children of terrorism. Thinking it might be something about how these children are educated or something. I found a long article in French with a video below. I was not in the mood for reading French, but skimming it I found biblical quotations. I came to the conclusion it must be comparing Christianity with Islam, so I thought I would let the video buffer in the hope that if it was in French it might be subtitled. I left it to buffer, went back to fb to be nosey at what other friends are up to, when I found Arabic language and realised the video had started automatically.
I clicked back and almost vomited. I am not even going to describe the image I found in front of my eyes, but I will tell you there was a child of around 9/10 years committing a terrorist act, whilst the crowd recited "allah we akbar" - and there were clearly female voices as well. The video was 1.30, by the time I could close the window I had witnessed 9 seconds, I didn't know whether to vomit or cry, but the images I cannot get out of my mind until now. The fb link had absolutely no hints to the content whatsoever, let alone a warning of the extreme brutality and graphic video.
I am seriously scarred, it has really affected me. We all know terrorism exists, but I had no idea what went on in these societies, or maybe I didn't want to know. But now I have seen a 9 second extract from what probably happens on a daily or weekly basis for these people, and I can't and don't want to imagine what the remaining footage showed.
I am still just in disbelief now, and still feel sick, saddened, distressed and actually terrified that this exists. Does anyone know how one can move on from such a thing, get this out of my mind? Does anyone here have experience as a counsellor or psychologist, how do you help rest someone's mind? I was kind of hoping talking about the experience might help rather than keeping it inside, which is another reason I'm posting this here, but actually didn't help much.
And a warning for others, please don't click links you don't know the content of, I definitely never will again.
:help:
Anyway, I clicked into the group to see what it was all about and other peoples opinions, as many of these PC changes have been since I left so I like to keep up to date. Whilst I did find some interesting things and very insightful comments, I also found many BNP type comments, and many more addressing the issue of terrorism - again some justified, many from people who clearly have very little understanding of the Islamic culture and the minority of extremists. One particular link caught my eye, titled children of terrorism. Thinking it might be something about how these children are educated or something. I found a long article in French with a video below. I was not in the mood for reading French, but skimming it I found biblical quotations. I came to the conclusion it must be comparing Christianity with Islam, so I thought I would let the video buffer in the hope that if it was in French it might be subtitled. I left it to buffer, went back to fb to be nosey at what other friends are up to, when I found Arabic language and realised the video had started automatically.
I clicked back and almost vomited. I am not even going to describe the image I found in front of my eyes, but I will tell you there was a child of around 9/10 years committing a terrorist act, whilst the crowd recited "allah we akbar" - and there were clearly female voices as well. The video was 1.30, by the time I could close the window I had witnessed 9 seconds, I didn't know whether to vomit or cry, but the images I cannot get out of my mind until now. The fb link had absolutely no hints to the content whatsoever, let alone a warning of the extreme brutality and graphic video.
I am seriously scarred, it has really affected me. We all know terrorism exists, but I had no idea what went on in these societies, or maybe I didn't want to know. But now I have seen a 9 second extract from what probably happens on a daily or weekly basis for these people, and I can't and don't want to imagine what the remaining footage showed.
I am still just in disbelief now, and still feel sick, saddened, distressed and actually terrified that this exists. Does anyone know how one can move on from such a thing, get this out of my mind? Does anyone here have experience as a counsellor or psychologist, how do you help rest someone's mind? I was kind of hoping talking about the experience might help rather than keeping it inside, which is another reason I'm posting this here, but actually didn't help much.
And a warning for others, please don't click links you don't know the content of, I definitely never will again.
:help:
but hope it helps!!!
