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VIEWPOINT: After Paris - we should
love and not hate

Group Editor Jamie Hill believes that it is vital we do not let
the terrorists lead us down a path of xenophobia and fear
Charity Clubbercise Class in sports chairs on Tuesday 8 December
at Commonweal School, Old Town and instead do all we can to help those in need.
in aid of Swindon Shock wheelchair basketball team
Book a chair for £10 by contacting: [email protected] The recent terror attack on Paris humanity.
had one simple aim - to sow discord We’ve definitely got humanity.
Round the World on Ice in 80 Minutes and fear. To make us look over our The recent groundswell of public
Thursday 19 December, 6pm, doors open 5.30pm shoulders in suspicion at everyone support for the refugee crisis shows
Swindon Ice Figure Club’s s ice dance show at Swindon Ice Arena around us. that.
And although there have been
The terrorists want that. They
Tickets £5 from club table at Link Centre on Thursdays 5pm to 8pm want us to ‘hate’. other recent terror attacks in
or www.sifc.co.uk
In this they have the same aims Nigeria and Beirut, for the majority
as Britain First and other UK far it is Paris that has really made us
right groups of making us fear look up from our smartphones and
Taste of Christmas each other. The so-called Islamic take notice.
State thrives on that. It thrives on Paris is our closest mainland
@ Purton Farm Shop Islamophobia. European capital city. It’s a city that
The more hate there is, the more we all know and love.
Sat 5th - Sun 6th December they’re able to use it to swell The people that live there have
their ranks with disaffected young lives not too disimilar to our own.
10am-4pm Free Entry
people who believe that the West We can relate to them.
hates them for wherever they We need to show solidarity with
Local craft & artisan products look they can only see more hate, France right now and for its ideals
Fresh coffee & mince pies making these disaffected and of ‘liberté, egalité and fraternité’ -
alienated youths easy targets for all ideals despised by the terrorists.
Mulled wine & cider
radicalisation. Take the aforementioned refugee
It’s a vicious circle. Hate leads to crisis. These people are fleeing the
Church End, Purton SN5 4EB hate leads to more hate. horrors of this cult of death in the
www.purtonhouseorganics.co.uk I believe as a species we need to chaos that is Syria and Iraq. We
do the exact opposite and find our need to take them in and help them

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