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Originally Posted by Livia
I don't think for one minute that Muslims in the UK are less opposed to extremism, I just think the mind-set here is different. I don't think they feel the need to be vociferous because people in this country don't require the Muslim community to stand up. The reaction on this forum endorses that for me. When the kosher deli was attacked in Paris, some of the first comments up here were 'I hope the Muslim community isn't caught in a backlash', followed by comments that it was probably a coincidence it was a kosher deli and nothing to do with any kind of anti-Semitism. We have endless comments about Muslims and terrorists being two quite different things, which they are. Yet I have been questioned quite aggressively by more than one person about Israel's stance on Palestine simply because I'm Jewish, indeed, one poster said on the thread about the Jewish man being spat at in Paris, that we have to stop arming Israel.
I think that 7/7 was at least on a par with the Paris incident, don't you? What we're having here now is an orchestrated campaign with professional photographs to encourage people to take part, not a spontaneous outpouring of public solidarity.
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Ok that's an interesting point which you might be right about. I wouldn't necessarily consider that a bad thing though, if you are right then doesn't it speak positively of how the Muslim community has largely integrated into our society that people do worry about a potential backlash, and that people are concerned to distinguish between ordinary Muslims and extremists? I would also like to think that Jewish people wouldn't feel out of place here in their own country, maybe that's not as true now as it was maybe ten years ago which is sad if so.