We’re all al Qaeda now

Watch this report about the protest against Scientology in Birmingham. Listen for the Scientologist spokesman’s judicious and not at all out of proportion use of the ‘T’ word:

Fair enough, I suppose. One person’s student out on a jolly is another person’s terrorist. If you’re a blank-eyed propagandist taking orders from a dead writer of piss-poor science fiction, that is.

I’m just worried that the ‘T’ word is becoming so over-applied that very soon it’s going to be harder to identify those of us who aren’t terrorists.

(Via Graham Linehan.)


Posted on February 11th, 2008 at 1:06pm under Religion and theology, T.W.A.T., The home front

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  1. Mike Power (111 comments.) on 11.02.2008 at 13:18 Permalink | Reply

    Parishioners?

    1. Justin on 11.02.2008 at 15:46 Permalink | Reply

      That’s what they call them, Mike. Not sure how the parishes are drawn up, mind.

  2. Seb Downie (1 comments.) on 11.02.2008 at 13:21 Permalink | Reply

    the view of the war on the Dutch front. Bit too quiet, but still quite amusing.

    http://sebdownie.blogspot.com/2008/02/war-on-scientology-battleground.html

  3. Henry Crun (1 comments.) on 11.02.2008 at 13:31 Permalink | Reply

    Is L. Ron really dead or is it just another of his life insurance scams?

  4. Nina Jones on 12.02.2008 at 22:09 Permalink | Reply

    You what?
    Um.. ok, so they are terrorists for not believing in someone elses faith? Isn’t that what started this whole stupid thing off back in 2001?
    Anyway, I’m with the “terrorists” simply because anyone who says that a woman shouldn’t scream in childbirth because it upsets the baby has, obviously, never had a child.
    Aside from that though this terrorist thing has got to stop, and I mean really.
    N x

  5. [...] of the day will decide depending on just who has been a sufficient nuisance. Given that even upsetting the Scientologists means that one can be labelled a terrorist these days, the Lord Chief Justice’s decision in [...]

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