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2005-12-26 Britain

Criticism in Bradford over Eid "Boom" ceremony

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Posted by john 2005-12-26 09:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remember, Asian in the UK means Pakistani. Otherwise, that article makes no sense to the American mind.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2005-12-26 10:11|| 2005-12-26 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I think to have a pretend explosion was very wrong,

I have to wonder if having real explosions would have been wrong...

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-12-26 10:33|| 2005-12-26 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew:

"Our intelligence had under surveillance a few religious types [in Singapore]. One of them left for Karachi and went on to Afghanistan, soon after the country was bombed by the Americans [in late 2001]. He was captured by the [anti-Taliban] Northern Alliance. He was of Pakistani descent. So we found that this wasn't just a religious study group. If that fella had not gone off to Karachi to fight with the Taliban, we would have been hit with seven truck bombs. The nitrates were sitting [across the causeway] in [the Malaysian state of] Johore.

At the same time that this Pakistani, born and bred in Singapore and English-speaking, was caught by the Northern Alliance, another Pakistani born and bred in Bradford, U.K., was caught in Iraq and sent to GuantÃ¡namo Bay. I watched his father on the BBC, and thought to myself: two Pakistani families left Pakistan, one for Bradford, the other for Singapore, produced children, brought up in two totally different environments, quite distant from the Islam of Pakistan, and yet they both end up fighting in Afghanistan. This Islamist pull is more powerful than that of communism. The communists never fully trusted one another across racial boundaries. The Vietnamese communists never trusted the Chinese communists and so on. But with the Islamists there is total trust : You are a warrior for Islam, so am I: We swear to fight together.

Posted by john 2005-12-26 11:09|| 2005-12-26 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow CrazyFool's all over the M-Speak.

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-26 14:28|| 2005-12-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 gotta think like a Clinton attorney. Good job CF. You've gotta wonder how this will all play into the Paki "oppression" claims scam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-26 14:33|| 2005-12-26 14:33|| Front Page Top

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