IN THIS insane society, where the BBC and the rest of the gutter press stir the slightly sane to ever more frantic Islamophobia; where every lie available is fed to a gullible electorate to support whatever atrocity the USA is committing; where a Facebook page now recruits UK youth to fight Islamic resistance in Iraq and another page recruits for the IDF to help enforce apartheid in Palestine, further proof of the institutional idiocy comes from the Metropolitan Police who have arrested a Kurdish girl, Shilan Ozcelik, and charged her with the bewildering offence of “engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to an intention to commit acts of terrorism under the 2006 Terrorism Act”.

And this for attempting to join the Kurdish separatist group fighting that which the US has rebranded ‘ISIS’.

Apparently Shilan’s skin gave them the impression that she was joining for the wrong side.

Roger Westmoreland, The Oval, Pocklington.