Keith,

I don't like the words "right" and "wrong".

As you have asked though, I will do my best to answer and will explain my answer, which I have thought about carefully and honestly.

Yes it is wrong to state those things as "information"

It is right to refer to those things as subject matter to be discussed.


I would see those comments as the opening comment in an investigation rather than as a piece of information.

i.e.

British Pakistanis generally do not approve of girls having relationships with males and marriages are very often arranged at a young age - Discuss.

A conclusion of such an investigation would without any doubt include essential qualifications without which the integrity of the conclusion would be in doubt.

To leave those kind of qualifications out would be to CHANGE the conclusion.

As purported pieces of simplified information, they are potentially misleading as they oversimplify the whole picture to the point that they actually create an misleading ad therefore inaccurate picture.

If a person with no experience of Moslems were to ask what they were like and got that answer, they would have a distorted image.

Another equally selective and misleading way of describing the same thing would be to say, in isolation, that British Pakistani Girls are spending more and more time with boys these days, rebelling against their parents, smoking fags etc, which, without knowledge of how much they are rebelling and without a context, again could give a misleading impression of a demographic going wild.

The RIGHT way to present the truth is the way that you would be expected to tell it in court - the WHOLE truth.