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I do think so yes. Which is why i said I agree with some of what he said. But most of what he said was racist, bigotted anti-multiculturalism. I hear that sort of shit all the time on the doorstep from BNP supporters. They say things like: we're second class citizens in our own country (we aren't). Moslems get what they want because they make a fuss (they don't, no more than any other group). We can't even have Christmas decorations up in Bradford anymore because it might 'offend' the moslems (bollocks. I know this to be untrue. They still have the decorations every Christmas). If you're asian you can just walk into the benefits office and they'll sort you out straight away, but if you're white they ignore you (complete crap). Asians get given massive houses for their extended families, that they bring over (nonsense; they're just as likely to be housed in inappriately small houses as anyone else). And a bunch of other stuff about how we bend over backwards to accomodate moslems (we fucking well don't).
His comment about Ken Livingstone is the big clue here. 'The Mad Mullah of multiculturalism'. In other words a Mayor who promoted tolerance and cross faith/community understanding. Well, what a bastard he was eh? To promote multi-cultural understanding in the world's most culturally diverse city.
*shakes head* This man is just a right-wing bigot who doesn't like moslems.
We haven't bent over backwards to accomodate moslems, we've targetted them disprportionately in stop and search; wrongly arrested many (shot a couple of them during said arrests) on the basis of flawed intellgience and provided them with inadequate protection against the massive rise in racist attacks on moslem individuals and businesses. They are the one group which it is culturally acceptable to attack in britain. because it's a 'faith' and not a 'race' people can be out and out twats and still claim not to be racist. The BNP leaders can make speeches in which moslems are referred to as an infestation of cockroaches ('and what do we do with cockroaches?' he asks the gathered supporters?) and the law does nothing because it isn't directed at a 'race'. If that speech had been about Jews or 'Pakistanis' or 'Sikhs' he'd have been convicted under british law. But because it's directed at 'moslems' it's fine.
British Moslems are under siege in this country and that's just fine and dandy. People can claim what they like about us bending over backwards and changing our way of life to accomodate them but it's 99% bullshit. Most of the moslem communities have higher levels of unemployment and deprivation than other communities and are subject to greater levels of police and civilian harrassment.
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