Life in the UK " Ummah Al-Koran"
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Submitted by Jeff Burke (Canada), Oct 23, 2006 at 09:20

From AP ( Arab Press)

In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television, Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips said he didn't want Britain to suffer the kind of violence that exploded in the deprived suburbs of Paris a year ago, when disaffected young people, many from immigrant backgrounds, rioted for three weeks.

He warned there could also be a repeat of the rioting in several northern English towns in 2001 caused by racial tensions between white and mainly Muslim south Asian youths.

"Only this time the conflict would be much worse," Phillips wrote in the Times.

Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said some violent attacks already have occurred against Muslims in the country. He said some women's veils have been forcibly pulled off, mosques set on fire and Muslims beaten by gangs of men.

The debate over veils was set off earlier this month when former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said Muslim women visiting his office should remove their veils.

The issue touches on growing anxieties about Britain's diversity and the alienation of young British Muslims like those who carried out suicide bombings on London's transit system last year, killing themselves and 52 commuters. ( are the british journalists completely crazy?)

Phillips said he thought Straw's remarks had been polite and respectful, but he worried the debate had since grown ugly and rancorous. The commission he leads was created by law in 1976 to fight discrimination and encourage good race relations. ( To paralyse those who are against multiculturalism)

In the interview with BBC, he said "what should have been a proper conversation between all kinds of British people seems to have turned into a trial of one particular community, and that cannot be right."

"We need to have this conversation but there are rules by which we have the conversation which don't involve this kind of targeting and frankly bullying," he said.

England is gone. The journalists are wearing veils over their eyes.

My fear is that Canada is next to be infected with this PC virus. Americans should be very concerned. They may one day have a Londonistran along their borders. Most Canadians live within 200 miles of the US border.

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