You only need to look at Swinney's hysterical bluster and weasel words to see @HarrietCross_MP has him bang to rights.
You can celebrate a Sikh festival and Remembrance Sunday on the same day. But shouting "Bandi Chhor Divas!" during the 2 minute silence is cringe and disrespectful.
An SNP government so desperate to look inclusive, instead exposed its extraordinary cultural ignorance. Thousands of Sikh soldiers fought and died alongside British servicemen in two World Wars. Their sacrifice is part of our shared national history. Remembrance Sunday belongs to them too.
As people of every colour, faith and background fell silent to remember those who died for our freedom. The SNP govt's official account wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that it had a different message to send.
What they posted at 11am was so naff, it might as well have said "Remembrance Sunday is for everyone else. You minorities can have your own little celebrations." to match the levels of extreme crassness and condescension.
Ethnic minorities don't need the SNP's performative gestures or patronising crumbs.
This is the poisonous consequence of politicians who see people as separate groups to be managed and patronised, rather than fellow citizens united by a common country and shared traditions.
The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us.
John Swinney laid a wreath on Sunday. Good. Now he should explain how the Government he leads managed to get this so spectacularly wrong.
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No one asks for reparations from Arab Muslims.
Think about that logically.
The Arab-Muslim slave trade ran from 650 CE to the 20th century, over 1,300 years.
Captives were chained and forced to walk for weeks across the Sahara. For every captive who reached the coast alive, five died on the march from the Great Lakes.
Boys aged 9 to 12 were castrated to create eunuchs for harems and palaces. The procedure had a 60-90% mortality rate. For every eunuch who survived, 2 to 9 boys died of blood loss, infection, or shock.
They were mutilated so they could never reproduce, so they could never have descendants.
The Arab trade took two women for every man, for concubinage and domestic slavery. Babies born to Black slave women were routinely killed. Of 3,000 female slaves emancipated in Zanzibar, only 5% had ever given birth. Zanzibar, the largest slave market in the world, was handling 50,000 slaves a year at its peak in the 19th century.
Slavery was not abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen until 1962, in Oman until 1970, or in Mauritania until 1981, and it was not made a crime there until 2007.
Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, and America abolished slavery in 1865. It was Western pressure that forced Zanzibar to close its market in 1873.
If history were about justice, why is only one slave trade taught, only one race blamed, and only one civilization asked to pay?
No reparations from Arab Muslims. No statues torn down. No apologies demanded. No school curriculum. No movies. No guilt.
That is not an accident.
That is how brainwashing works.
That is how history manipulation and narrative engineering work.
You are not taught history. You are taught what to feel guilty about and what to forget.
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