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Thread #154376   Message #3631875
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Jun-14 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
"is irrelevant to our experience here."
Violent racist attacks, harassment and discrimination in Britain have been part of the lives of outsiders who have settled in Britain throughout the 20th and into this century, Jews, West Indians, European asylum seekers.... anybody of the 'wrong' colour, religion and origin.
'Paki-bashing' almost achieved the status of a national sport from the 70s to the 90s in parts of England.
Open warfare under the name of Religious differences in Northern Ireland led to loss of life here and in mainland Britain for two decades - hopefully, that is disappearing, but we are about to see yet another display of religious and national triumphalism here in a few weeks time.
Some of the worst of those once active in the Troubles have now directed their attentions to asylum seekers and Muslims - racist attacks in the part of Ireland that is still British have been reported as being on the increase.         
Someone once claimed strikes and industrial unrest as 'the British disease', that has long been replaced by racist and religious intolerance.
A couple of years ago a survey revealed that a quarter of British people admitted to holding and expressing racist views; that was confirmed by another poll this year and is now taking political shape as indicated by the fact that Ukip went into the election on a racist ticket and gained significant support.
All this has taken place because of hatred generated by people like yourself with your 'cultural implants' and hate-merchants like the B.N.P.
Well done you.
Jim Carroll