iBlockhead wrote:
I like how Tequila can go off saying the EDL and BNP are bad with their "special" treatment of Muslims, but this is OK.
The BNP leadership are a***holes. You'll get no disagreement from me on that. I'm not sure that can be ascribed to all of their voters though. I'm not making excuses for them but, especially in the past, there was no-one raising the kind of issues that the BNP really were. Discussion of the more negative impact of Pakistani Muslim immigration into the UK was considered completely verboten. Can't talk about it. Anyone who does so is a racist and a bigot and a Nazi sympathiser.
That has changed. These days, there is a definite awareness that multiculturalism has gone badly wrong (as it has across Western and Northern Europe) but it's all about how to integrate people into the greater whole, as it were. The likes of the BNP are out of the picture on this - a lot of BNP voters themselves realise that we can't ship them back now. They're British citizens, and therefore have all the rights that we have. Many of them were born here.
A lot of the EDL are a***holes too, although I'd be lying if I didn't say that a lot of white/non-Muslim people didn't have
some sympathy with
some of what the EDL
claim to stand for - i.e. being against Islamic extremism. Islam is the only real religious group I can think of in England that has any real problem with undesirable behaviour. It used to be the Catholic Church, but in Britain and Ireland that church has undergone an enormous decline.
My point is simple - not all or even most Muslims are terrorists or terrorist sympathisers. But a sizeable minority are, as shown in opinion poll after opinion poll. And Islam has some very nasty opinions on women, gays and non-Muslims which are no doubt reinforced by communal and cultural conditioning in England as well. If you grow up Pakistani Muslim in a very Muslim area of England and you end up being taught in Islamic schools and go to Salafist mosques, you're bound to end up with opinions that are markedly different from the general norm in wider British society.
At
no point have I ever expressed support for the BNP or the EDL.