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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
I'm against Islamic hate groups and I'm against Muslims supporting the ISIS cause and I worry about radicalization but that isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the growing cultural racism in the UK and my comments came from the 'FS' comments after the ops link. I didn't suggest for a moment that you are Islamophobic, I suggested supporting such freedom of speech is wrong and you know what? I also have freedom of speech.
What are you wanting me to prove?
This: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34138127 and this: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fea...054323264.html
or this: http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/19/david-...peech-5253627/
and this: http://www.thejournal.ie/david-camer...55535-Jan2016/
and this: http://news.sky.com/story/1568455/ch...im-hate-crimes of which Cameron paid lip service to the problems and made promises he didn't fulfil.
I don't know where you live Kirk but I live and work in central London and I've seen the changes and I'm very disturbed by them.
I was washing our quilt in a local launderette a few weeks ago when two African women who run the shop started picking on a Muslim couple and told them they couldn't use the machines.
I've stood at the bus stop with an agitated old white woman who cursed loudly about the Muslims in the queue and I've stood behind a woman in my local coop whilst she slated and spat anti-islam venom at the shop assistant. I have a friend who works for an employment agency who's boss now won't employ anyone with a Muslim sounding name and I work with Muslim people who are considering leaving Britain because they no longer feel safe but the biggest thing that bothers me is, when I meet new people, which I inevitably do through my work, how quickly they want to pass on their Islamophobic views about those dirty Muslims and they do it because Islamophobia, at least in my part of London seems to have become an accepted topic. |
Of course if our 'prime' minister is using derogatory terms it will filter down and become an acceptable social norm, it's a bit of a double standard to suggest combating hate crime one day and trot out the comments he has of late.