As the alarm rang last Friday at 0355 I knew I could not hit snooze. I knew I would have to shower and dress and read the global papers from the Washington Post to the Sydney Morning Herald, via China Business Daily, Moscow Times too.
At precisely 0445 I stepped into the black Mercedes waiting for me outside my home. The driver is a familiar face, but I’m too immersed in checking the latest overnight news on my phone, from the US and the afternoon happenings in Japan.
The producer at the BBC at 0500 welcomes me with a smile, and we discuss the stories that I shall comment on. Then swiftly down to make up at 0515, with a hot coffee in hand. Back to the ‘green room’ to sit in front of the PC and read the stories and do some background research.
A quick chat at 0530 with one of the presenters, and then into the studio.
And then it happens. All hell breaks loose. Or rather, I break lose like hell on the first story. The US are thinking of new bases in Iraq. I can’t be polite. I cannot control my anger.
‘We’re being sucked in. And I’m angry. The Middle East has always had its fair share of psychopaths and it’s got to stop being our problem in the West. We don’t have the money. They have to sort it out. Let the Saudis do it, the Emiratis. They’re all rich and armed to the teeth by us.
The ISIS psychopaths and those like them have been around long before America was even a country – it’s not us they hate, it’s just death they love, and if not us, then some other excuse they will find.’
Well I’ve been told by quite a few people I shouldn’t have said that. Oh not for factual inaccuracy, but in case the ISIS psychopaths (and there are a few of them in Britain as we know – like in Dewsbury) come and find me.
You know why non-politicians like me and you need to speak out? Because these psychopaths, and their virgin brides, need to know ordinary common people know they are psychos, know they are not glamourous. Keeping quiet is Islamophobia, speaking out isn’t. Speaking out in private is not good enough. We have to speak out in public and call them what they are – psychopaths.
Make a martyr of me ISIS. You sick death-loving psychopaths. We too know where you live, and the armies of the world are congregating on your borders to send you to your sick psychopathic heaven.
And if you want to see the clip: http://bit.ly/alpesh-showreel
