Michael Vaughan's Twitter feed after Manchester attack

[s28]

People often talk about a 'horseshoe theory' of politics (it's nonsense of course but something superficially appealing to novices), but these people never talk about a 'horseshoe theory' of terrorism when if anything when it comes to terrorism it is true that the extremists feed on each other and in claiming to fight each other actually simply glorify and act as 'recruiting sergeants' for the other side.

Katie Hopkins and people like her are simply White ISIS. They claim they love 'British Values' of freedom, rule of law, tolerance but they never actually practice any of those values. Just as the supposed ISIS claim to be Muslim but practice none of the main precepts of Islam

 

[Slog]

People often talk about a 'horseshoe theory' of politics (it's nonsense of course but something superficially appealing to novices), but these people never talk about a 'horseshoe theory' of terrorism when if anything when it comes to terrorism it is true that the extremists feed on each other and in claiming to fight each other actually simply glorify and act as 'recruiting sergeants' for the other side.

Katie Hopkins and people like her are simply White ISIS. They claim they love 'British Values' of freedom, rule of law, tolerance but they never actually practice any of those values. Just as the supposed ISIS claim to be Muslim but practice none of the main precepts of Islam

How many people has Katie Hopkins killed or chopped heads off

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Why would any English person need to chop heads? our government can send armies around the globe to do the chopping and bombing on our behalf. Terrorism is for the weak and desperate. Also the incredibly stupid.

 

[James]

Vaughan is a loose cannon on Twitter, and sadly for him he is also a fake Yorkshireman who tells everyone he is from Sheffield but was actually born Lancashire-side.

Never rated him much as a batsman either. Played some good knocks in losing causes, but otherwise preferred to leave a gap between bat and pad so big that you could slowly manuever an airship through it - after which he would return to the pavilion, put his feet up with a Dr Pepper, and read about himself being the world's best captain again that hasn't got many runs recently but it's okay because neither did Mike Brearley, in the latest fawning Telegraph article.

 

[Varun]

Never rated him much as a batsman either. Played some good knocks in losing causes, but otherwise preferred to leave a gap between bat and pad so big that you could slowly manuever an airship through it - after which he would return to the pavilion, put his feet up with a Dr Pepper, and read about himself being the world's best captain again that hasn't got many runs recently but it's okay because neither did Mike Brearley, in the latest fawning Telegraph article.

The quintessential England player. Lost interest in life after a home series victory against Australia - of the narrowest of margins at that.

Averaged 29-30 in ODIs and 39-40 in Tests but ended up with an MBE and a Knighthood.

 

[Robert]

Vaughan is a loose cannon on Twitter, and sadly for him he is also a fake Yorkshireman who tells everyone he is from Sheffield but was actually born Lancashire-side.

Never rated him much as a batsman either. Played some good knocks in losing causes, but otherwise preferred to leave a gap between bat and pad so big that you could slowly manuever an airship through it - after which he would return to the pavilion, put his feet up with a Dr Pepper, and read about himself being the world's best captain again that hasn't got many runs recently but it's okay because neither did Mike Brearley, in the latest fawning Telegraph article.

There was a period of about a year when he looked in the same league as Lara and Tedulkar. I'll always remember him picking up McGrath outside off and hitting him over square for six.

I think he would have become one of the great England openers, but the captaincy interfered with his batting in a big way, causing an instant and precipitous drop in his run production.

With Brearley he was the best England skipper I saw, in a tactical and man-management sense. As Brearley got the best out of Botham, Vaughan got the best out of Flintoff and Pietersen.

Should really lay off Twitter though!

 

[Sidilicious]

There was a period of about a year when he looked in the same league as Lara and Tedulkar. I'll always remember him picking up McGrath outside off and hitting him over square for six.

I think he would have become one of the great England openers, but the captaincy interfered with his batting in a big way, causing an instant and precipitous drop in his run production.

With Brearley he was the best England skipper I saw, in a tactical and man-management sense. As Brearley got the best out of Botham, Vaughan got the best out of Flintoff and Pietersen.

Should really lay off Twitter though!

There is always a period in most good cricketers career when they look like future ATGs. But how long can they maintain it, is generally the big questions. Tendulkar and Lara are so because they did it over decades.

 

[Poison]

Surely hating on Vaughan's cricketing ability should be illegal.

Closest we'll get to the classy-left-hander technique in a right hand batsman.

 

[CricketCartoons]

There was a period of about a year when he looked in the same league as Lara and Tedulkar. I'll always remember him picking up McGrath outside off and hitting him over square for six.

I think he would have become one of the great England openers, but the captaincy interfered with his batting in a big way, causing an instant and precipitous drop in his run production.

With Brearley he was the best England skipper I saw, in a tactical and man-management sense. As Brearley got the best out of Botham, Vaughan got the best out of Flintoff and Pietersen.

Should really lay off Twitter though!

It is normal behaviour to declare anyone as a mediocre or failed professional if you disagree with his twitter views. The converse it also true.

 

[Braveheart]

Think of it from his or the perspective of the other natives, who are quickly brushed aside as 'bigots'.

More than 90% of the terrorist attacks in the world are by Muslims, so how do you expect them to understand that Islam is not a terrorist religion? For them, the convenient justifications that Islam is a peaceful religion and the cliched statement that 'terrorists have no religion' etc. don't have any significance.

What would you think of Christianity if Christians would be causing terror all over the world in the name of religion?

It is very easy to call people 'bigots', but when you think from their perspective, this is not an easy time for them. If I was a non-Muslim, I would obviously be wary of any bearded Mullah type Muslim because I don't know what school of thought he belongs to.

It is the sad reality of Muslims and Islam in today's world and we have to embrace it. A lot of us would have had the same feelings and views if the shoe was on the other foot.

I should clarify that I am not specifically referring to this tweet which I think is quite stupid, but I'm referring to the general anti-Muslim/anti-Islam sentiment in the West.

Agree, Islam and Muslims generally are going through a very turbulent phase in historical terms and that has resulted in extremism in all forms whether it be Violent Extremism based on twisted interpretations mixed with fascism or Religious extremism that rejects anything 'UN-Islamic'.
All resulting in what we have today.
Christianity went through a similar Phase a few hundred years ago. But now thousands of Churches lie empty.
There now appears to be a 'rejection' of religion generally amongst the UK's indigenous white population.