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Postby theg » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:58 am

Muslims Want to Leave Britain
By Foreign News Desk
Published: Thursday July 28, 2005
zaman.com


Muslims living in Britain are going through difficult days following the announcement that the London blasts' suspects were of Pakistani origin.

Reportedly, two thirds of Muslims who have been exposed to attacks, harassment and insults are considering leaving the UK. According to a Guardian/ICM poll, police recorded 1,200 suspected Islamophobic cases across the country ranging from verbal abuse to a murder in the past three weeks. The Guardian claimed the headline figure was a massive underestimation, indicating that one in five Muslims either their self or a member of their family faced abuse or hostility since the July 7 bombings.

The poll put forward that Muslims are afraid of anti-Islamic retaliation. Sixty-three percent of the 1,500 Muslims polled said they reconsidered whether or not to remain in Britain. Sixty-seven percent of those over 35 are concerned about their future, while this figure increases to 61 among those who are 34 or under. Emphasizing the Muslim population in Britain, The Guardian wrote, "Britain's Muslim population is estimated at 1.6 million, with 1.1 million over 18, meaning that more than half a million may have considered the possibility of leaving." The following reveals other outcomes from the poll conducted between July 15 and 17 by The Guardian/ICM indicating that tens of thousands of Muslims have been influenced by Islamic hostility:

Turks are the most unproblematic Muslims

Thirty percent of those participating in the poll are pessimistic about their children's future opposed to the 56 percent that said they were hopeful. Eighty percent of Muslims pointed to Britain's role in the Iraqi war as the reason for the attacks; however, 90 percent said the violence had no place in the political struggle. Twenty percent said Muslims made necessary efforts to cope with British society, 40 percent indicated there was more that could be done. Another group amounting to five percent said they supported the July 7 bombings.

Furthermore, Anthony Browne evaluated Muslim communities living in European Union (EU) countries in his article titled "The threat of Islamic extremism that stretches across Europe" published in The Times. Browne wrote that there are 15 million Muslims living in Europe; however, the most unproblematic ones were Turks living in Germany. According to the poll published in the paper conducted through the Populus institute, 74 percent of London locals believed that bombing attacks would become a reality in the city they lived








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Postby tcklim » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:57 pm

What the muslim-world needs to do and do quick is to organize huge protest demonstrations against terrorism.... can't understand why they arent more vocal already.... it would help a great deal in showing the world these few terrorists commiting horrible acts in the name of Islam aren't really Muslim at all......

And Bush needs to be impeached....
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Postby Filitsa » Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:40 pm

Tcklim, I too question why the Muslim world has yet to display publicly its solidarity against terrorism in the name of Islam, or has it and are we just not looking in the right places?

I am not a Bushophile, but in his defense, the malignancy existed well before the start of his presidency. He, however, helped it to metastasize.
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Postby magikthrill » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:37 am

Filitsa wrote:Tcklim, I too question why the Muslim world has yet to display publicly its solidarity against terrorism in the name of Islam, or has it and are we just not looking in the right places?

I am not a Bushophile, but in his defense, the malignancy existed well before the start of his presidency. He, however, helped it to metastasize.


um if im not mistaken right after the first london attacks i heard on CNN dfferent muslim nations denouncing terrorism. and this is from CNN. cant rememebr which though.
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Postby Murtaza » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:59 am

I am sure, European people would be more nice to muslim than us.
I would realy interested If 10 000 people of them die because of to terrorists, what they would do.

I am sure they would be better than us, After all they are more humanist and democratic than us.

So I dont understand why these muslims want to leave. They have best people around them. Democratic and humanist people.
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Postby KYPROS-EINAI-ELLHNIKH » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:41 pm

I am one of the most anti-Western foreign policy people you will meet (for example I believe that US should pay massive reperations to Iraq and Vietnam as well as a whole host of other countries), but Muslims are generally anti-social people. For example, I asked a muslim woman in London once where a payphone was and she ignored me. If you speak to 'proper' Muslims about these kind of things they are really wierd people, like they believe women shouldn't be able to drive and should only be allowed out the hose with a male escort from their family....

I think that English have no family values and English go to work when they are 16 (hahahaha) because their parents don't care. But the Muslims are really really wierd when it comes to things like that.
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Postby Filitsa » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:06 pm

Magikthrill wrote:

um if im not mistaken right after the first london attacks i heard on CNN dfferent muslim nations denouncing terrorism. and this is from CNN. cant rememebr which though.


What was reported on CNN were the voices of individuals consequent to interviews initiated by the press and not the self-initiated collective voice of Muslim nations.
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Postby theg » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:28 am

i have listened a news from tv. a denmark radio station told ''for fight terrorism we should kill muslim'' a radical and stupidly idea.
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Postby sophisticatedbeggar » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:20 pm

Murtaza wrote:I am sure, European people would be more nice to muslim than us.
I would realy interested If 10 000 people of them die because of to terrorists, what they would do.

I am sure they would be better than us, After all they are more humanist and democratic than us.

So I dont understand why these muslims want to leave. They have best people around them. Democratic and humanist people.


True, the average European can be extremely racist at times but at least we have laws protecting miorities against discrimination and all forms of racism... And they do work...
This is probably obsolete in (say) Saudi Arabia due to the lack of minorities (especially good, old Christian minorities)... A good way to solve the problem I reckon...
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Postby Murtaza » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:34 pm

Yes,I know what they did, Until end of ottomans, that christians were living there. Sorry for them :cry:
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