This land is mine.........

...and I quite like it, thanks. Like it the way it is - or was, perhaps, while I was growing up. It has certainly changed over the last few decades, at home, and clearly overseas. I have to say that in a lot of cases it has NOT changed for the better.
The antics of some people - and let's be honest, it's quite a lot of people - in the last few years has quite literally shaken most foundations that we were taking for granted. If anyone is like me, then you go about your day-to-day lives, coping with what may be put in front of you - the traffic to work, the problems on the trains, the kids growing up, having to do the kid-ferrying bit for 15 years or so.....
Over the last 30-40 years, a lot has changed - country boundaries are no longer the headache they were, you get to the other side of the world in less than 24 hours, and don't even wonder at it. Forty years ago (this year!) we managed to put some people on the moon, and even more amazing, we got them back! Wow, things were looking GREAT!
Where I was, we had a fairly straightforward next few years. We saw some grief across the planet, and countries still had wars - even whole-sale mass murder in East Europe. All of that changed on the 11th of September, 2001. We were suddenly jolted into a nightmare that continues today. We (the unsuspecting public) now knew that there are these fanatics out there, who have no consideration for their own lives, or the lives of people around them. They have one goal - to destroy. The West is Target number one, and anyone who gets in the way is just an acceptable statistic.
How did this Hell get to be visited on us? I can make no claims to being an expert on Islam (or Christianity, Judaism, or any other of those things called 'faiths') so don't quote any techno-bible blurb at me; I will ignore it.
We clearly have the 'who do you believe' stuff now - should we (somehow) believe that this Islam is a faith of peace? I see NO evidence of this. None. To be fair, it is quite probable that most islam-followers are as shaken as 'we' are - it is like saying that you should be a good Christian; have you seen the mess that went on in Northern Ireland? That was one branch of Christian fighting another branch of Christian. Sad, but true. And so many people died, horribly, in the name of some 'belief'.
How can this be? How can you be a (supposedly) religious leader (of ANY faith) and have the nerve to stand up, in front of your people (who should be looking to you for guidance) and you tell everyone that they should go out and kill the Infidels - all of them, you don't care who, just ALL of them!
This screams of Wrong, Wrong, WRONG! The religious leaders should be thrown out of the country, and we, the people, should not accept this activity, at all.
I am saddened, but I see the rise of the far right in all of this, as the frustrations of the people are ignored by Establishment. The UK British National Party is known as far right, and many people will have nothing to do with the hardline stands, but if this Government doesn't wake up soon, they will suddenly find that the whole face of UK politics changes, almost overnight. And then we are surely lost.