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Originally Posted by Gavin
Noone is innocent here SLM, Not even Muslims with a victim-complex.
Because of the bans across many Muslim countries, our home office issues dual passports to people wishing to travel to Israel and many Muslim countries. While many BNP fathers won't allow their daughters to marry Muslims, considerable numbers of Muslim fathers won't allow their daughters to marry westernised Muslims, let alone non-Muslims.
Yes, Muslims are discriminated against, but they also are discriminators themselves. Just like everyone else. Discrimination is a human trait, not a racial or cultural one.
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I think you are missing the point I am making. I am not saying muslims do not discriminate, the point I am making is how its now seen as "fair game" to a lot of people, to tar all members of the religion, with the same sort of arguments that wouldnt be acceptable if you were applying them to a race (of say black people).
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It's all about perception.
Like it or not, the vast majority of people perceive Islam to be an Intollerant, violent, oppressive religion. The Governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia only help fuel this perception with the amount of executions and chopping off of hands and feet. British Muslims and indeed muslims world wide also do nothing to dispel this perception. Even during a recent episode of Wife Swap which involved what you would call a typical British Muslim family showed the Muslim Wife to be intolerant of the other families way of life.
Like it or not, be it the truth or not - that is the perception and unless something is done to change that perception then that is the way it will be.
And don't think this is just reserved for Muslims, I'm pretty sure if took a straw poll on peoples views on Scientology, Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses it'd come back with people thinking they're all weirdo's.