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Thread #135090   Message #3106025
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Mar-11 - 03:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
"It does not come from me "
What does come from you is your attempt to use what others have described as an attack on British Pakistanis as a whole and their culture; you continue with this line. This is the answer to the question you are "going to push for" You are openly indulging in racial stereotyping.
Nobody here is suggesting that these hasn't happened, we suggest that you has deliberately blown them out of proportion as a cultural phenomenon.
While we are 'pushing for answers', why aren't all cultures that are subject to sexual repression suspect? Following the reports of sexual abuse on children in Ireland, every Catholic falls under your suspicion of being a paedophile.
You want sexual repression, go and read up on 'original sin', 'being conceived in sin', 'impure thoughts', 'churching'. Examine the constant suspicion and humiliation the Christian church, Catholic and Protestant, has heaped on its members down the ages, for being 'sinners' and potential sinners, even to the extent of having effected another aspect of their culture, their music.
Go and find out how other religions regard and treat women, backed up in Christianity's case by the bible.
Nobody here is defending the excesses of Muslim culture; I doubt if many here can claim to understand the religion to any great extent, but it is unacceptible to use it as an attach on the practioners of that faith, as you have here - immigrants have enough to contend with without having to put up with racism.
This is aimed at you too Mike - you are beginning to sound like Kweith at his worst.
Jim Carroll