Second: believe it or not, but for hours after writing that comments, it kept popping up in my head until I realised what I was doing.
I'm arguing with someone who:
- during an ongoing genocide harps on about the great injustice done to genocide-celebrating football fans
- plays the moderate by saying we should all defer to the public authorities (the good ones, those that don't do anything, not the public authorities like Khan, who is a dishonest guy who wouldn't even have gotten elected if there hadn't been a genocide around in the first place)
- mentions that indeed, it's complicated, there are problems on both sides, etc. The sides you're equivocating being a group of pretty much Nazi football fans and the (gasp) the Muslamists!
- jumps into a comment about Muslims being the problem whipping out a Muslim map of Birmingham. Imagine any other discussion about risks of violence and someone helpfully jumping in with a "Jew map" or "Chinese map" and making dark innuendos about the Jewish mayor. And then has the gall to squeak out "and don't you dare be an islamophobe"!
- is all over the discussion, making disingenuous, weaselly arguments.
Again, stop reading opinion pieces on WP and looking at Muslim maps, go to a protest, you'll see you're imagining things.