I was on the final run to the tip today, with the car CD player set to random play on a disc stuffed full of loads of WMAs from my computer, and Manu Dibango's version of Peter Gabriel's classic anti-apartheid song Biko came on.
Despite having heard it many times I was really struck by the third verse which goes:
You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Powerful words and a fine expression of defiance and standing firm in the face of adversity, but I wondered… is this another way of stating what some muslims are thinking? Are all our counter-terrorism actions fanning the fire if they fail to blow out the candle?
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