The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135090   Message #3109570
Posted By: Jim Carroll
08-Mar-11 - 08:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
"No, it is amassed evidence for the fact of this issue."
No it isn't, it is a selection of a handful of incidents, unquantified and unqualified - we have no idea if they are even representitive of the areas in which they occurred, never mind of the Pakistani communities in Britain - we have no idea how they fit into British life whatever. If you have any information on this, please present it; you haven't so far.
The classic technique of racism is to take examples of the worst behaviour of members of immigrant communities and present them as typical, leaving us with the impression that this is how all immigrants behave.
The sheer weight alone of your postings (I nearly wrote examples, but in fact they are very few, just repeated over and over again as a mantra) would be enough to leave us with this impression, but you have compounded this with your claim that this behaviour is the result of British Pakistani culture. That, for me, is what makes your stance racist.
I have never claimed that the incidents described never happened, any more than I would claim that the same behaviour is not present in every other cultural group in Britain, including the indigenous population.
I do say that it is racist to present it, as in any way typical of the Pakistani communities, as you persistanly have throughout this thread.
Jim Carroll