September 06, 2006
Backlash: 1 in 6 Londoners Avoid Muslims on Train
The backlash is just so terrible. Rantburg:
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Around 35 percent of travellers in London said they had felt nervous or uncomfortable in the last year because of someone with a south Asian or north African appearance on an underground train or bus. Of that number, nearly half said they had moved seats or sat down away from them
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The HORROR!!!
Posted by: Good Lt at September 06, 2006 08:09 AM (yT+NK)
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I would have expected a higher percentage.
Posted by: Mike at September 06, 2006 08:13 AM (qofCr)
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How utterly racist of them!
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 06, 2006 08:13 AM (v3I+x)
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The poor misunderstood participants of the ROP. Next thing you know they will be forced to sit at the back of the bus.
If I had my way they would all have to sit in bomb proof compartments towed behind the bus.
If I had my way they would all have to sit in bomb proof compartments towed behind the bus.
Posted by: SeeMonk at September 06, 2006 08:39 AM (7teJ9)
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I wonder if any of those 1 in 6 are liberals. Kind of puts your opposition to profiling to the test doesn’t it?
I bet even an ACLU lawyer on “holiday†in London moves when an “Asian†sits down next to him on the tube looking like he’s wearing my son’s football rib pads.
The lawyers last thoughts... â€The Constitution is not a suicide pact...now I get itâ€.....BOOM!!!
I bet even an ACLU lawyer on “holiday†in London moves when an “Asian†sits down next to him on the tube looking like he’s wearing my son’s football rib pads.
The lawyers last thoughts... â€The Constitution is not a suicide pact...now I get itâ€.....BOOM!!!
Posted by: Brad at September 06, 2006 08:52 AM (6mUkl)
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Poor "victims". At least they're still alive (unlike the victims of muslim backlash).
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at September 06, 2006 09:34 AM (8e/V4)
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Well, I'll admit when I see someone who appears to be a Muslim, I pull the hammer back on my .45 Auto, and put my pistol in the cocked and locked position. Does that make me a racist? No, it makes me a realist.
Posted by: jesusland joe at September 06, 2006 09:49 AM (rUyw4)
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Sensitivity training for everybody! All non-muslims in the UK should be educated about all the positive contributions Islam has made to modern life like........uh.........um........uhhhhhhh.......ah ha! - no, that was by the Israelis........um...............uh..................
Posted by: Graeme at September 06, 2006 10:01 AM (nC5eY)
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In a related news, just last week, nearly 3 in 4 Irwins admitted to feelings of nervousnous when a fish with stingray like appearances got between them and their cameraman.
Posted by: Editor at September 06, 2006 10:08 AM (adpJH)
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I don't blame them. I'd probably do it too. I hate going down to Java here in Indonesia. As soon as I see a Muslim with a beard and dressed in middle-eastern garb in Jakarta or Surabaya, I think "terrorist" right away. It shouldn't be that way but it is. Maybe we'll see segregated trains and planes soon. Non-muslim flights only. The longer the moderate majority keeps silent and doesn't denounce fundamentalists, the worse it's going to get. If we can see that there are Muslims who don't want to put up the fundamentalist's shit then we have someone we can work with to eradicate the problem. If they stay silent and don't speak out against the radicals, we tend to lump all Muslims into one group and label them all as fundamentalists.
Posted by: Stan the Infidel in Indonesia at September 06, 2006 10:12 AM (TKFm4)
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Last time i was on a redeye was flying out of new orleans. I had my laptop (those were the days!) And I stretched out, feet toward the aisle, laptop in lap/stomach area. I noticed then that the two middle eastern men in the row opposite mine kept looking at me, and I haven't been able to shake the idea they thoght i was trying to keep an eye on them.
I almost apologized after the flight, but as i tried to think of something to say, i got angry, and wanted to yell at them, something like: Dammit, I'm pissed at arabs and muslims because they make me feel this way! I'm pissed at you nice fellas because your coreligionists won't repudiate terror! I'm pissed at you because this crap is all so needless! I'm pissed at you and your coreligionists for making me into someone you confused for a paranoid racist!
Course, I didn't yell that, either, I just sorta walked away upset, and unsure if it was because they thought i thought they were terrorists, or because maybe i did think they might at least bear watching, or if (most likely) I was upset with the whole damn mess and noone (or everyone) to blame it on.
I almost apologized after the flight, but as i tried to think of something to say, i got angry, and wanted to yell at them, something like: Dammit, I'm pissed at arabs and muslims because they make me feel this way! I'm pissed at you nice fellas because your coreligionists won't repudiate terror! I'm pissed at you because this crap is all so needless! I'm pissed at you and your coreligionists for making me into someone you confused for a paranoid racist!
Course, I didn't yell that, either, I just sorta walked away upset, and unsure if it was because they thought i thought they were terrorists, or because maybe i did think they might at least bear watching, or if (most likely) I was upset with the whole damn mess and noone (or everyone) to blame it on.
Posted by: jdubious at September 06, 2006 12:45 PM (G7s9a)
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I recently went to a stock trading seminar of about 35 people. There was an Arab looking man there in the row in front of me. He seemed at ease and liked to talk. I suppressed my aversion for the moment and decided I would give him half a chance. It didn't take me long to start disliking him as he kept wiggling in his chair like a grade-schooler and talking in his Arabian accent and carrying on a conversation with a European looking dude next to him. I became irritated when I missed what the speaker was saying on account of him. What a jerk! Almost like he was flaunting being accepted by us lesser, weaker infidels. Well, I came, I saw, I gave my 2 cents and got short-changed. Had an aversion to arabs before and have a stronger aversion now. :-(
Posted by: Last gasp Larry at September 06, 2006 01:08 PM (Dd86v)
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Why? Because they smell bad.
Posted by: greyrooster at September 06, 2006 01:33 PM (pmFTg)
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muslime = (terrorist | terrorist sympathizer)
Posted by: robbie at September 06, 2006 05:02 PM (QpkBe)
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I wouldn't change seats. If a middle eastern-looking male gets on a plane I'm on, even last week when I flew, and I keep my eye on him. If he's up to no good, then he wants people to move away from him so he can do what he wants in private. If I were to see several of them going to the bathroom in the back, I'll go stand back there with them and pretend I have to go. I want them to know someone is watching.
That's the price the 'innocent' ones pay for their silence.
That's the price the 'innocent' ones pay for their silence.
Posted by: slug at September 06, 2006 07:35 PM (GCgd/)
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I must admit that I too once got up and sat somehwere else when a muslim man dressed in full arab regalia sat next to me on the subway. But in my defence it wasnt because he was muslim, but because he smelled like something my dog threw up. I guess soap and a shower is something reserved for us non-believing infidels....but hey what do you need to shower when you got 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven right?
Posted by: Farty McNasty at September 07, 2006 02:00 AM (u3bd/)
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" Why? Because they smell bad? " I hope I never get close enough to smell the goat cheese, but my aversion comes because if this dude was any example I would hope that they aren't all adolescents trapped in grown-up bodies. But that is what we are dealing with here. Short fuse, quick to anger, quick to start shaking that finger! Quick to strap on that suicide belt for Jihad!
Posted by: Last gasp Larry at September 11, 2006 11:49 PM (Dd86v)
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