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| Report: EU Insufficiently Deferential to Muslim Colonists |
| 2006-11-29 |
| Most European Union nations are doing little to report incidents of racism or discrimination, the EU's racism monitoring agency said Tuesday. [Link to official report] The agency gave EU governments poor marks in its report for 2005 on the state of racism and xenophobia in the 25-nation bloc, concluding that the EU as a whole must increase efforts to combat discrimination. Beate Winkler, director of the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia, said most member states "still lack the necessary data to monitor how social and economic policies affect their ethnic communities." European governments must adopt a law setting out a standard definition of racism, said Anastasia Crickley, who chairs the monitoring agency's management board. Once all member states can use a single definition, they will be able to collect information on racist attacks. "Unfortunately we cannot sit here ... and say that the situation has improved," she said. According to the report, only Britain and Finland had "comprehensive" systems in place to report on racist violence, collecting details about victims and the locations of incidents. It said no official data was available at all on racist violence and crime from Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus and Malta. "As a result, some ethnic minority groups may experience discrimination without adequate response from the state," Winkler said. The agency holds that statistics are essential in fighting the root causes of racism and xenophobia. Britain topped the list with nearly 60,000 racist incidents reported between April 2004 and March 2005. German authorities recorded 15,914 crimes by right-wing or extremists last year, while France reported 974 racially motivated incidents. The agency said Denmark recorded the highest rise in recorded racist violence and crime, going from 36 in 2004 to 81 in 2005, a 69 percent increase. [snip] Reports from Belgium showed landlords sometimes refused to rent apartments to people with foreign names. Similar refusals were also documented in Denmark, France, Italy and Finland. The report pointed to two key incidents last year that highlighted exclusion and discrimination in Europe. It said violent riots in the suburbs of Paris and elsewhere in France in October and November 2005, largely by Muslim youths of Arab and African decent, was due to decades of discrimination in jobs and housing and overall alienation from mainstream society. The EU agency said such violence showed there was an urgent need to tackle discrimination. |
| Posted by:exJAG |
| #6 Course not, CF. In fact, it explains, in the context of British law: "Under earlier racial hatred laws, Sikhs and Jews as mono-ethnic religious groups are protected as racial groups whereas Muslims, Hindus, and Christians are not." BTW, this is the only reference to Christians, Christianity, or Hindus in the entire report. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-11-29 17:00 |
| #5 Does it explain how 'Islamic' or 'Muslim' is a race? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-11-29 16:02 |
| #4 Of course, all the *youths* who burn cars and buses are NOT racists. They're just *youths*. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-11-29 15:26 |
| #3 The European Union, out to put the "EU" back in Eurabia. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-29 15:08 |
| #2 The report makes no mention of the ethnicity of aggressors, being phrased in a bland passive voice that makes it sound like European natives are the ones doing all the hating and attacking. I searched the 140-page PDF document for a few terms: Jew/ish: 11 hits Anti-semitism/ic: 29 Muslim: 48 hits Islamic: 6 hits Islamophobia/ic: 15 The upsurge in "faith-hate" crimes against Muslims after the 7/7 London train bombings is described in detail, twice. Data from the UK shows 532 anti-Jewish incidents, 137 anti-Muslim incidents, and no information the identities of the perps. Random yoots, no doubt. Money quote: ". . . Jews continue to experience antisemitic incidents, which tend to be well documented by both official and unofficial sources. And, although their experiences remain under-documented, Muslims are increasingly coming to NGOsÂ’ attention as victims of racist violence and crime." |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-11-29 14:51 |
| #1 Do they count attacks by Muslims on Jews as "racial" attacks? Or are "racial attacks" code words for hurting the feelings of Muslims or not being properly deferential the way good dhimmis should be? |
| Posted by: Rambler 2006-11-29 14:14 |