21st Century Wire says…
It’s been said that he’s an occasional misogynist, a part-time sociologist and full-time elitist. This week, Boris Johnson elevated his game to even greater heights, when he had a few choice words to say about the Islamic State fighters.
His controversial comments are about as deep as he (or any other western politician) is willing or able to go when it comes to explaining what ISIS really is. What he would not dare mention is how has ISIS been able to build up to the level they are at today. You just cannot let those kind of facts out of the bag, because critical thinkers may fear that more voters might start asking uncomfortable questions, and if there’s one thing that politicians hate more than anything – it’s facts and questions.
During his recent Tory fact-finding jaunt through Kurdistan, the London mayor delivered his eulogy on ISIS paramilitaries and what he believes makes them tick.
Gaffe prone Johnson claims that the men who fight in the ISIS jihadi brigades are ‘very badly adjusted in their relations with women’ due to a sense of failure, and ‘they watch too much online porn’.
Well, you know what they say – it takes one to know one…
HARRY FLASHMAN TAKES ERBIL! Johnson poses for a photo with Peshmerga fighters (Image Source: Londres Easy)
Frances Perraudin, Shiv Malik
Guardian
Boris Johnson has described men who go to fight with Islamic State as “literally wankers” who watch porn because they can’t meet women.
Johnson described British jihadis as “tortured” and “very badly adjusted in their relations with women”, something he said was a symptom of “their feeling of being a failure and that the world is against them”.
“They are not making it with girls and so they turn to other forms of spiritual comfort – which of course is no comfort.”
He continued: “They are just young men in desperate need of self-esteem who do not have a particular mission in life, who feel that they are losers and this thing makes them feel strong – like winners.”
Johnson, who is one of the leading candidates to be the next Tory leader, made the comments in an interview with the Sun newspaper a week after he visited the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil to see the Peshmerga fighters who are pushing back against the Isis insurgency in Iraq. The visit, during which he posed for pictures with an AK47, was interpreted as an attempt to demonstrate his credentials as an international statesman.
Speaking on Sky News later on Friday, Johnson defended his comments, saying they weren’t “remotely controversial”.
He argued that there was plenty of evidence to support his point: “The crucial thing is that these are young men, principally young men who are growing up without much sense of success in their lives, without a feeling that the world holds much for them and … their problems need addressing in all sorts of ways.”…
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