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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
If I took 100 people from the streets (all white and english) and 40% when questioned said they were racist, would it make the majority of white english people racist?
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That sample would be too small. But yes, if you got a 40% response from a suitable sample group, then you might be able to infer that.
Obviously, if your 'random' sample is taken as people leave a BNP rally, then it would no longer be representative.
Try finding out a bit more about how polls are done. The ICM results, as they stand, do suggest that a 40% 'minority' of British Muslims would welcome sharia law.
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
As for 40% of the UK population being able to elct a governemt, ur not telling me only 500 people voted are you? The comparision is not valid.
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I'm not saying only 500 voted, but I AM saying that with only 40% of the vote of all the voting adults in the UK it IS possible to win a general election - in fact, it has happened in recent years.
You're confusing your numbers.
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
And yes the statements I printed were in the Sun. Read by millions of people of which the majority are said to believe everything they read. Thats why its not good.
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But the Sun isn't quite a white anti-muslim supremacist paper, so it's not nearly as worrying as the poll results themselves.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Enough of this talk of extraditing 'them'.
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Those comments have discredited the people that made them, since they clearly haven't got a grasp of the basics, never mind anything more complicated.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
'They' are British, whether we like it or not, whether they feel like they are or not.
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British Muslims are muslims who were born into British citizenship. Ergo, their nationality is British. If any other country were to 'deport' them, they'd end up here.
We could only 'extradite' them is they committed a crime in another country and that country requested their extradition. And I suspect that our judicial system would not extradite to any of the countries that some of the posters would like to have 'them' sent back to.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
They cannot be sent 'home' because even if they don't feel like they are British/English and despise everything that being western stands for, they don't have anywhere else to go.
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That's not entirely true...
If they don't like it here, no-one is keeping them here. They're free to travel. They could even emigrate to <whatever muslim country> if they felt they'd be more at home there.
The truth is, I think some of 'them' would have a bit of a culture shock if they did - they'd find that it's nothing like Britain, and they'd probably start wishing that they'd stayed and appreciated this country better.