[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....hmmmm, some of those comments really are pretty darn racist tbh...'Why has my post been removed? All I did was echo what other people are saying'...I'm guessing that the reason for the removals is for that very reason and if these are the ones which have been allowed/not removed then others must have been extremely grim indeed...I do understand that people are fearful/these are scary times and I think that's a huge factor for many people but it still doesn't make it any less racist/the vein of many of those comments...


..anyways, I know that I'm on my high horse about this atm, which I have personal reasons for but I do think that this total focus on radicalisation in so many areas of society atm is so not helping at all and almost inciting racism/suspicion etc...and I do know that it's important also, you know so should be a focus but it seems to me to be detracting from so many other 'families in need' which are just taking a secondary place...these families are everywhere and every day, there isn't a community that doesn't have them on their very doorstep but I think a 'radicalised family' or person within a family is something that would be a comparatively rare thing/and perspective with that, I think...IS may be growing but IS is not everywhere...

I think what I meant is 'Racist' in intent Ammi - a lot of these people cannot adequately vocalise their thoughts and their comments are racist within the strict definition of the word.

I am perceived as racist by some on here, but I KNOW I am not, my family KNOW I am not, and my friends KNOW I am not, and those friends include a 28 year long friend of mine, Haleem and his beautiful wife and family - all Muslims - who I will be having dinner with this evening at his lovely home in Huddersfield. We may even visit the Hanfia Masjid mosque on Bentley Street, which I have done work on, to see another friend.

Might surprise some people.