Probably shouldn't comment as any opinion voiced on the subject of race seems to get you labelled as supporting one or other of the extreme ends of the argument, but I'll risk it.
There seems to be an agenda at the moment perpetrated by the tory rags (Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph etc) to bring us a few stories every day of how the Muslims and other immigrants are demanding this and that.
This leads the papers readers to come out and reply with things like "well if they don't like it ...." etc.
Then the second phase kicks in with replies claiming "political correctness" and accusing anyone who bothered to reply about being concerned of being Nazi racist scum, which then infuriates the readers further and anyone who didn't rise to the bait at first gets dragged into the argument as it now seems we aren't allowed to care about Britain anymore, leading to people who have never witnessed any of the supposed muslim takeover of Britain calling for action.
While the newspaper editors sit back smugly knowing their right wing agenda is a hot topic guaranteeing paper sales for years to come.
Maybe I'm just cynical or totally misguided?
Nothing promotes racism more than these stories of political correctness we are subjected to (e.g don't put up Christmas lights as it offends members of other religions etc.), I'm sure these are specially selected for maximum impact.
Every ethnic group and religion has extremists but it's a question of whether you listen to them or not, you could go out and interview a BNP member who wanted all immigrants shot but would you get away with calling him representative of the views of all British people? of course not, and nobody would believe it, but if you interviewed someone like Abu Hamza his extreme views are taken as the opinion of all muslims by a lot of people.
I've just viewed another link on a (normally sensible) forum I visit, to a guy reading his diatribe on "how Britain should stop pandering to the Muslims" posted by a "concerned" reader.
The guy in the video appears to be reading every headline I've seen on the Telegraph website over the last 6 months, the sort of things that are guaranteed to make you think Britain is becoming a muslim state and you need to take action.
I also know the message is getting through because I received an e-mail from my (as far as I ever knew) non racist mother-in-law with the old "bird feeder" analogy which is doing the rounds at the moment.
Unfortunately race riots are almost inevitable in the future as the British public is being conditioned by the media to treat all immigrants with suspicion, and the "PC brigade" are just inflaming the situation.
The "Sun reader" mentality that swept the tories to power in the late seventies is sadly still alive and kicking, too many people still believe everything they read in their morning papers and follow whatever lead they're told to.
There is a very real problem of Britain becoming overcrowded in the future due in part to the steady influx of economic and political immigrants coming into Britain, but also to the longer life expectation of the elderly, I read that there are five times as many people over 85 as there were fifty years ago and for the first time in recorded history the over sixties outnumber the under sixteens, advances in medicine means people are just living longer which accounts for a high proportion of the population increase.
The "cut down to the bare bones" public services will not be able to cope, my local area has half as many hospitals as it did when I was young in the sixties and seventies, so even if the population hadn't increased in that time they would be struggling.
Labelling every immigrant a terrorist is not the answer to this problem, it just reeks of "looking for a scapegoat" to cover the mismanagement of Britain by the tories and now carried on by new (we're like the tories but nicer) labour.
I don't know the answer? and it appears after years of governments lining their pockets to the detriment of the British people they don't either.
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