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Stuffysays's avatar

Exactly! Absolutely nothing will happen because nobody in authority wants anything to happen. There might be an inquiry set up which will take 10 years, cost millions and change nothing. Give it another 10 days and it won't even be a news story - already it's not a BBC story because there are some fires in California. Let's not pretend to each other than the Muslim communities up and down the country didn't know this was happening. I reckon the majority of Muslim men can't see what the fuss is about and the majority of Muslim women think exactly the same. White people are all Kafirs and not worthy of notice - we are merely here to pay tax so they can claim benefits. The exotic Muslim in the mind of a Guardian reader is some cross between Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik" and a sobbing Palestinian - romantically dangerous but also romantically needy. White working class people are the unpleasant people fixing broken plumbing, cheering at football matches or being interviewed by the BBC on how they can't work, can't see a doctor and really deserve better but actually don't. The British should be rising up and overthrowing their government, expelling their unpleasant immigrants, being more...Revolutionary. But they aren't. They are sitting around saying isn't it dreadful, something should be done, nothing will change and, most importantly, don't say anything racist out loud. What a pathetic country this is - our ancestors would be shocked and disgusted with us.

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Sine Nomine's avatar

The so-called 'peaceful majority' of Muslims are only conspicuous by their silence over this issue. Or should I say complicit in their silence.

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