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Thread #126240   Message #2805977
Posted By: Folkiedave
07-Jan-10 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
The "mosque" story it is simply not true. Probably you couldn't find the cathedral supposedly to be built in in Saudi Arabia because it was actually to be built in Cairo. Had you looked things up correctly you would have found it.

The land for the Islamic Cultural Centre was given in Regent's Park as a gift from King George V and a donation of over £100,000 from Churchill's War Cabinet also a gift, for Muslims who had spent World War Two defending the British Empire.

Simple research Lizzie. Of the kind that you really ought to do before posting unsubstantiated horlicks.

I cannot imagine that your story of the cathedral in Saudi Arabia was designed to improve race relations between Muslims and British people. But like many of these stories against Muslims it turns out to be unfounded garbage.

Sorry, but if I went to live in France, or Saudi, I'd not expect the local population to appreciate, or alter their way of life to suit my vision of how their country should be.

But if you go to Spain that's exactly what happens. There are lots of expatriate enclaves where the residents try and create Britain and complain about the way the Spanish do things. I have often heard them say they have left Britain because of the immigrants taking over. They say this with no sense of irony.

But read a Spanish newspaper and you will see how the concentrations in some places have put enormous strains on the Spanish health system because of lot of the expatriates who go there are older and retired (as I was). And let me say the Spanish health system from my limited experience is excellent.

You personally might not do it - but lots of your fellow Britons do.