"but I do feel that some few among them have mistaken attitudes and follow &/or recommend unacceptable practices; and I resent being attacked, directly or by implication, as some sort of racist persecutor,"
Sorry Mike - we have had our differences in the past, some of them heated, but I am not aware that you have ever stereotyped any community or group as a whole (or even 'all males belonging to any specific group) - others have, and my remarks were aimed at them, not you.
I don't disagree with your 'mistaken attitudes of some' - but that surely applies to all religions; those who would defend and protect paedophile Catholic priests, or fanatical 'pro-lifers (sic)', or Christians who would slaughter a camp-ful of youngsters in order to make a political/religious/racist point....
As a community, British Pakistanis are recognised as law abiding and hard working and their children are among the highest achievers within the education system - hardly the cultural perverts that some would have us believe - "that small but unavoidably noticeable BY THEIR OWN WILL & CHOICE minority" says it all as far as I'm concerned - would that everybody accepted that fact.
Jim Carroll