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That comment is soo true!!!!!
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No it bloody isn't. If it was, you see, you'd actually have people like Bishop Nasty-Ali pointing out where they are so we could go and have a look. No one ever has, so I conclude they're nasty little scaremongering Islamophobic right-wingers as usual. Still, hard right evangelical protestantism usually works on a 'facts have a liberal bias' principle, so I'm not surprised.
The unanswerable answer to this desperately stupid woman is 'why, if Christians are persecuted in Muslim countries is it alright to persecute Muslims in Christian countries?'. It's the old 'you wouldn't be allowed to do that in Russia' argument again, and is equally idiotic.
Of course, I'm willing to be proved wrong, if you know one of these no-go areas I'll be glad to go and have a look. I (a technical Jew) might ring up Sunny Hundal* (a secular Sikh, and prominent blogger on religious and community issues) and get him to come down. If we don't come back, you might have a point. I'll take a postcode or grid reference, thanks.
* from his blog yesterday:
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Here’s two points to remember. First, when that idiotic Bishop Nazir Ali was talking about ‘Muslim no-go areas’, he didn’t really mean it. This is from an email Indigo Jo received from his office:
I would wish to make it clear that I was not referring, as some have implied, to the situation which arose in some neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland some years ago which the authorities felt constrained from entering. I was referring to the situations which were first reported by Lord Ouseley and Ted Cantle, but subsequently by many others down to and including the Commission on Integration and Cohesion of last year and Sir Trevor Philips even more recently.
The fact that none of our media, including the so-called ‘liberal BBC’, pressed him further on what the hell those no-go areas where, proves how willing they are to accept this as a statement of fact. But Ali himself admits he was just generally referring to the multiculturalism rather than his own experiences.
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http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1830
As usual, when you get behind the headlines there's a different story. This won't stop people failing to look behind the headlines, of course.