future

3rd April 2025


The city seems silent but its only a ruse. They are waiting. Waiting for me and people like me. I rarely go out now, and when I do I wear a crucifix or a false beard.

When did this change happen? I'm not supposed to say things like this, but it was the Moslems who started it. It all began in East London. At first only a few women wore the hijab, their faces hidden behind black veils, then more and more filled the streets. Black flightless crows smothered our souls like black shirts before the last great war, pronouncing sterility and oppression. We allowed it! We foolishly looked away.

Yes, that was the beginning. Once more, religion, that smothering, corrupt, leaking ball of fabricated ancient factoids gained privileges imposing chains on body and mind.


After appearing on our streets veiled women appeared on our TVs, becoming regular events. The die was cast!

Any criticism of such behaviour was deemed rascist. Those concerned by the creeping imprint of the ignorant and arrogant were deemed ignorant and arrogant themselves.


Soon, other faiths demanded special rights. God-lust appeared everywhere. Yahweh and Allah became ubiguitous.



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The killings began a year ago. Moslems went on the rampage stabbing any woman not fully covered, whether or not they were Moslems too. Although the culprits were arrested, any criticism of the murderers beliefs or reference to them was squashed by the authorities. Attacks on nightclubs and theatres began. People stopped attending out of fear.

The authorities began to turn a blind eye, afraid of accusations of prejudice. Soon religious killings became commonplace. Immans began encouraging the process, pressing their followers to even greater atrocities. Calls of 'Allah, Allah' reverberated like burps from hell.  Calls to prayer could be heard on every street corner, calls to murder. Moslems always claimed that they were attacked first.

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A month after, Christian fundamentalists took to the streets, followed by Hindu fundamentalists. Sectarian warfare became another everyday occurance. We were not allowed to speak against it, as it was done in the name of god.

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In the name of Yahweh and Allah, there is no more music or laughter. Anyone caught looking happy is summarily executed. Women are segregated. Men are again in charge! The unexamined boringness of religious virtue has swamped all cultural life. humanbeings have become mere insects, without thoughts, without ideas. The Tate and National Gallery have been raided by independent groups of Moslems and fundamentalist Christians, celebrated paintings have been torn apart, revered sculpture smashed, and in Trafagar Square proscribed books are regularly burned.

If I leave my home and any of the murdurous troup of priests and imams realise I do not believe in their homicidal creations, I will be cut up, hung, burnt in a communal pyre, strangled or/and tortured. Religion rules! Human kind is finished!