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Anti-Muslim bias now the social norm: British minister
2011-01-21
[Dawn] Prejudice against Mohammedans has "passed the dinner-table test" and become socially acceptable in Britain, the Conservative Party's chairwoman will say on Thursday.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the Pakistain-born minister without portfolio, will say in a speech at the University of Leicester that dividing Mohammedans into "moderate" and "extremist" fuels intolerance, according to prepared remarks published in the Daily Telegraph.

"It's not a big leap of imagination to predict where the talk of 'moderate' Mohammedans leads; in the factory, where they've just hired a Mohammedan worker, the boss says to his employees: 'Not to worry, he's only fairly Mohammedan,'" the first Mohammedan woman in a British cabinet will say.

"In the school, the kids say: 'The family next door are Mohammedan but they're not too bad'.

"And in the road, as a woman walks past wearing a burka, the passers-by think: 'That woman's either oppressed or is making a political statement.'"
What should they think, pray tell? This is not normal apparel in the West. Has it occurred to these women and their menfolk that really, they ought to fit in to their surroundings? Jews, after all, are told to remove identifying jewelry and items of clothing, lest Mohammedans beat them up on the street, and as a rule they are employed and assimilated into the general society.
There are 2.9 million Mohammedans in Britain, almost 5 per cent of the population, according to an estimate last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Britain has regularly been a focus of Islamic myrmidon plots. In the worst attack in the country, jacket wallahs killed 52 people on the London transport network in July 2005.

"Those who commit criminal acts of terrorism in our country need to be dealt with not just by the full force of the law,"
Warsi was due to say.

"They also should face social rejection and alienation across society and their acts must not be used as an opportunity to tar all Mohammedans."

Warsi's comments follow those made by Prime Minister David Cameron in his New Year message when he said Britain still faced a serious threat from international terrorism.

"We must ask ourselves as a country how we are allowing the radicalisation and poisoning of the minds of some young British Mohammedans who then contemplate and sometimes carry out acts of sickening barbarity," Cameron said.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Nice piece, Dribble
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie   2011-01-21 23:29  

#5  When I see a woman walking down the street with non-western dress, I wonder whether her daughter will wear it when she grows up. That's the danger of Dearbornistan; that they will stay in the ghetto and not assimilate. But the assimilative power of the US on the younger generations is very strong and the Mohammedans don't impress me as having the ability of the Amish or Hutterites to resist it. The Euros don't want to or try to assimilate, so the Mohammedans will have a much easier time staying apart. We need to assimilate, and to isolate the true radicals.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-01-21 17:43  

#4  Actually this Conservative politician was born in the UK. Check out the clown costume she was wearing in Parliament (based on the guys in the background, this wasn't a costume party):

Posted by: Zhang Fei   2011-01-21 16:37  

#3  dividing Mohammedans into "moderate" and "extremist" fuels intolerance

Okay, than we won't divide them. All Muzzies are now considered extremist. You down with that?
Posted by: Alan Cramer   2011-01-21 10:55  

#2  This is an article about Britain. Doesnt it speak just as explicitly about how Moslems are viewed in the US?

HOW are Moslems viewed in the US? Do Moslems at the Mall put a smile on your face? The dress, the sandals...can you spot where they are from? The women covered up.....they sure ain't Baptists are they?

You take their money at the counter, but you really dont care if they ever come back, do you?

You dont want to see more of them certainly. ( Lets put it another way...you dont care if you never see them again.)
They are here in the US for the ride.....not because they really want to be a part of who we are. Moslems dont assimilate and until they do they arent going to be a part of what we all are. Moslems arent your friends, they just are people sitting at their own table at Starbucks. And if your name is Cohen and Finkelbaum ....dont bother with them.
You gonna invite a Moslem family over for a Casserole? You gonna "share" anything in your life or your family's life with a Moslem family?
Like what?
Posted by: Dribble2716   2011-01-21 06:47  

#1  Tolerance is a two way street, Sayeeda.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-01-21 05:09  

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