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British Muslims face increasing prejudice: survey
2004-12-17
File under Poor, Poor, Put-upon Turbans...
My inner Dewey Decimal System is sayin' they should be filed under "Turbans, Put-upon"...
The number of British Muslims who say they experience discrimination has nearly doubled in the past four years, according to a survey published on Thursday. Some 80 percent of the country's 1.8 million Muslims say they have been discriminated against because of their faith compared to 45 percent in 2000 and 35 percent in 1999, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said. Muslim men are now just as likely as women to experience prejudice - a significant change which the IHRC blamed on an increase in the number of police and security checks carried out on Muslim men since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
They are more likely to kill people than Muslim women, or Lutherans of either sex...
White British Muslims report more discrimination than any other ethnic group, suggesting Britons are intolerant of apostates who convert to Islam.
Perhaps because they see them as joining the other side? People are waking up, y'know. You can only fool some of the people all the time...
"What's happened, post 9/11, is that some very deeply rooted prejudices - things that weren't articulated in the public realm - have found expression," Arzu Merali, one of the authors of the report, told Reuters. Eight percent of the 1,200 Muslims questioned in the survey said they experienced some sort of discrimination every day. Another 8 percent said it was a weekly problem, 8 percent described it as monthly and 55 percent said they had been discriminated against "on some occasions".
Posted by:Fred

#16  Maybe these guys should have a talk with Capt. Hook...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-12-17 8:14:28 PM  

#15  The fat bastard at the fish and chips shop called me the son of a lying dog! He told me that I should take my Paki ass out of his shop and leave his country. All of this because I told him that his chips were soggy and his fish overpriced. Oh, and my son tried to walk out without paying last month. It is intolerable I tell you. This man is full of hate and clearly despises me because of am a faithful Muslim. I must complain to the IHRC!
Posted by: Remoteman   2004-12-17 7:28:50 PM  

#14  pork rind bags left in the mailbox...
Posted by: Frank G   2004-12-17 5:08:35 PM  

#13  What are the 8% who are victimized every day doing? Living next door to a BBQ shack and having beer bottles thrown on their yard?
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-12-17 4:50:09 PM  

#12  Love it, BH! Put me down for 1/2 a dozen copies. I want to get a head start on gifts for next Hanukkah.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-12-17 11:14:28 AM  

#11  Does it ever end for these poor damn victimized, persecuted, misunderstood Muslims? Thank Allah, organizations like the Islamic Human Rights Commission are around to whine on their behalf.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-12-17 10:43:51 AM  

#10  The greatest current idiocy was that Blunkett attempt at odious appeasement by proposing British laws that protect Bigotry from criticism. No wonder he had to resign though for somewhat the wrong reason.
Posted by: Wo   2004-12-17 10:18:56 AM  

#9  This so-called intolerance is perceived because they are not viewing it in the proper context. Middle Easterners should not try to judge us by their standards. It's all in my forthcoming book, "Occidentalism".
Posted by: BH   2004-12-17 10:04:02 AM  

#8  Muslims face "increasing prejudice"?

Speaking for myself, I'm no more prejudice today then I was on September 12, 2001. My prejudice hasn't increased. It remains constant.
Posted by: Mark Z.   2004-12-17 7:40:17 AM  

#7  Oooh and I forgot to add 'Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)' ROFLMAO should be renamed Islamic Hypocritical Research Commission .
Posted by: MacNails   2004-12-17 7:11:39 AM  

#6  Well , when their religion stops being an arse and moves into the 21st century , then , I may give it some credibility , but as it stands I dont .

As regards the tripe Arzu Merali says “What’s happened, post 9/11, is that some very deeply rooted prejudices - things that weren’t articulated in the public realm - have found expression,”

It aint us who have the very deeply rooted prejudices you fucking moron ...
Posted by: MacNails   2004-12-17 7:08:17 AM  

#5  "Do you believe that Kufr is a capital offense?", "Yes", "Sorry, you can't work as a guard in our nuclear instalation."
Posted by: gromgorru   2004-12-17 6:47:22 AM  

#4  Not me, Wo, and certainly not my newly black belted daughters (yes, I admit it, I am inordinantly proud about what they achieved this week. I promise not to rave too much longer. Please forgive me, Fred, for wasting your bandwidth.)
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-12-17 6:30:01 AM  

#3  "to advance Islam" means at the elimination of anything else, as verdicted by history and fully reinforced by the fierce demand of that Creed within its own 'scripture'. Who would welcome such a Barbarian subversion if they understand the full impact of that unthinkable implication?
Posted by: Wo   2004-12-17 6:10:51 AM  

#2  The IHRC - what a noble institution. They bang on relentlessly about Palestine, Gitmo, Iraq & domestic disrimination yet say nothing about women's rights/genital mutilation/honour killings. And the Beeb treat them as an authorative source. I falsely applied for a job there and mentioned that I was Jewish (I'm not) - did I get a reply? Did I fuck.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-12-17 6:06:03 AM  

#1  Survey the non-Muslims to see if they agree - surveying Muslims is a moronic idea - of course they'll seethe and lie their asses off - it's part and parcel of the indoctrination process in Islam.

What's the word, again, for lying to the stupid infidels to advance Islam?

Worthless survey and worth even less opinions.
Posted by: .com   2004-12-17 2:38:52 AM  

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