This cowardly trend is taken to the point of absurdity in this article (h/t LGF), which uses both terms, "Asians" and "Muslims". It uses "Muslims" to describe the people who were the victims of a hate crime, and then "Asians" to describe the people who responded violently to that hate crime:
Not an Asian-run dairy?Extra police are being drafted into the Windsor area today after three nights of violent clashes between white and Asian youths.
Gangs have fought battles in the streets using baseball bats and pitchforks. A Muslim-run dairy which wants to build a mosque was petrol bombed.
gangs of Muslims didn't travel from Slough?Violence flared for the first time on Monday outside the building in Vale Road in the Dedworth area of Windsor.
There was an altercation between a teenage boy and dairy staff during prayers. It escalated and the windows of several vehicles were smashed.
Amid claims that the boy, his mother and teenage sister were assaulted, up to 50 young people clashed on Tuesday night.
Windows of the makeshift mosque and dairy vehicles were smashed. Residents said gangs of Asian youths travelled from Slough to fight the white gang. One youth was reportedly arrested for carrying a 12-inch knife.
It's all so confusing. Let me see if I can make sense of it. Once upon a time there was an English dairy in Windsor.
At some point during the Great Deconstruction, the dairy was incorporated into the Umma.
The Muslim owners of the dairy decided to build a mosque. But, some of the bigoted, hateful neo-nazi English people who stubbornly and hatefully remained in the newly ummaized area objected to the mosque, where Muslims simply wanted to practice their peaceful religion.
Blinded by hatred and Islamophobia, the White, English, racist neo-nazi zealots did not appreciate the benefits The Religion Of Peace could bring to Britain.
So, a white kid threw a petrol bomb at the dairy, because of his irrational Islamophobia. In response, gangs of Asians came from another city to defend the Muslims against the white neo-nazi hatemongers.
I guess while the fighting was going on between the Asians and the English, the Muslims just watched from inside the dairy.
The End.
Read more of my ranting here, along with the full news article on how the Asian gangs came to the rescue of the Muslim victims.
8 comments:
Thanks for clearing that up for me, GN. I was terribly confused.
The term "Asian" (and even the term "South Asian"), actually includes several groups-- in Britain the largest are Pakistani Moslems and Indian Hindus.
However, these two groups are quite different in several ways, and including them both under the heading "South Asian" is misleading. (When you read about rioting & political extremism by "South Asians" in Britain-- its not the South Asian Hindus...)
I recently came across this article:
>UK Hindus appeal for recognition
By Emily Buchanan
BBC world affairs correspondent
Hindus living in Britain feel they are ignored while other groups are being listened to, a survey claims.
The survey commissioned by the Hindu Forum of Britain questioned 700 Hindus online and conducted phone interviews and focus groups.
It also found that most Hindus do not like being called Asian, preferring the religious label Hindu.
Britain's 500,000 Hindus are the country's third largest religious group, after Christians and Muslims.
The relative success and industriousness of Hindus is now being questioned by the second and third generations. They feel government has taken them for granted for too long.
Priti Raichura is a member of the Hindu Youth Forum.
"We've offered a lot to the British economy, we've worked extra hours, we've not taken handouts like some other groups and we want recognition for that - we want the government to call us British Hindus."
For years the large number of immigrants to Leicester from the sub-continent were called Asian, but that collective Asian identity just does not fit anymore.
Increasingly Hindus are saying they don't want to be under the same ethnic umbrella. They want to be recognised for their distinct contribution to Britain. . .
In Leicester Muslims can be buried in their own cemetery within 24 hours to fit in with their religious requirements, while Hindus have been asking for their own crematorium for 20 years.
The government should be mindful of the way Hindus feel marginalised.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/5167332.stm
Published: 2006/07/11 02:18:35 GMT
For a brief but bracing example of Telling It Like It Is, I refer everyone to http://www.walidphares.com for his testimony of the state of jihadism in Amercia today. Read it. It is scary as hell but the honesty will make you feel better. The first element of his suggested strategy for combatting the growth of Jihadism here is to educate the public about its nature and tactics.
Thanks, oh One of the Menacing Hand, this has bothered me to no end, partly for the idiocy, partly for being so inaccurate, both rather OCD-like sticking points with me.
Krishna--thanks for bringing up your points, as I was about to ask about this issue myself. I had suspected that such media treatment in the UK must surely be REALLY bothering the Hindu Asians (South Asians, you name it, it really does get a bit too much) to no end. How can they put up with being lumped into the same group, though geographically correct for the most part, if we don't get into the distinct nature of the partitions? It would drive me insane!
And as f to make matters worse, they also have chosen the even more confusing (for the international press) issue that "Asian" is one of the largest and most diverse groups on the planet (if not #1). For heaven's sake, technically even I am half Asian! Yes, technically ASIA MINOR counts. But I have common sense enough to not run around screaming, "Hey, I'm Asian! Check out my "minority cred" now!" I just settle for people looking at me weird. Is that so wrong? Still, this is even worse than the international press mentioning something happening in Africa as if it were a small country the size of Portugal.
What about "sons of Mother Earth"? That way nobody's feelings are hurt.
I don't know, just in case I might keep an eye on all of these kids adopted from China. I know most of them are toddlers, but the MSM has me well aware of the danger.
That's the fun with multiculturalism: the internal contradictions.
All this really pisses off asian-Asians, most of whom want little or nothing to do with the Islamic world, much less get tarred with what has to be the most useless connotation ever. It's not as though 2/5 of the world's population didn't live between North Korea and India. Now you gotta throw in every Mohammed and Ahkmed into the mix and pretend it's all the same... just to be politically correct!
I suppose we should just go ahead and drop Russians into that pile. Shit, go for broke. Run all of Europe in there as well. It's only a continent in the political sense.
I agree, it's not fair on Hindus that the media lumps them into this general 'Asian' category. I'm Jewish and grew up in London with many good friends who were Hindu. The Hindu community has integrated into British society while also keeping their own distinct cultural identity. The Muslim community could learn a lot from this.
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