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2004-03-15 Britain

1 in 10 British Muslims back terrorist attacks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-03-15 12:24:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Moral equivalency is fun!
For instance, can we rig these polls the same way AQ rigged the Spanish election?

Wrong answers this time, Abu "Captain Hook" Hamza loses the other hand.

More wrong answers, Tomahawk on the Finsbury Street mosque (RN of course, we wouldn't want to violate British sovereignty).

Gotta know the language, and we're learning fast.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-15 1:00:02 AM|| 2004-3-15 1:00:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And, even for the terminally blind, so rests the Myth of the Moderate Muslim forever.

Posted by .com 2004-3-15 1:30:25 AM|| 2004-3-15 1:30:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The poll results are heart-warming. It is uplifting to know British Muslims are more moderate than American Democrats. Truly there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel in this war on terrorism.

Posted by Garrison 2004-3-15 1:37:15 AM|| 2004-3-15 1:37:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 i say all muslims in the UK are a security risk to great for us to ignore. Basically they all need to be told to get out the country within a few months, if not lock em up.Islam is Nothing but a death cult

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-15 4:03:19 AM|| 2004-3-15 4:03:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Time to apply 'The Cricket Test' and chuck out the ones not cheering our team.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 5:21:31 AM|| 2004-3-15 5:21:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 How is the Cricket Test conducted? Is it pass/fail or scored?

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-15 7:12:00 AM|| 2004-3-15 7:12:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Famously UK immigrants from Pak, India, West Indies will cheer on their teams as opposed to England when playing in the UK. A tory politician of the eighties and nineties, Norman Tebbit, claimed that those failing to support the English team should be repatriated to their country of origin... a question of loyalties - 'The Cricket Test'. The fact that the English cricket team are blessed with an abject lack of talent may help to explain this, however.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 7:27:15 AM|| 2004-3-15 7:27:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 It this is the case, half of Los Angeles would be deported to Mexico after the next soccer game.

Posted by ed 2004-3-15 8:09:45 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:09:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Quite.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 8:18:36 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:18:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Talent or not, well not at all even, I wouldn't expect my next door neighbour to come round my house to watch the cricket and have a beer to suddenly 'turn around' and start cheering for the Paks or Indians, if he did this in my house i'd say oi no you do not cheer for a team thats not your own if you claim to be british. Anyway i seem to recall a load of Paks nearly killing some 'umpire' type guy in a cricket match in the UK a few years ago, they swarmed the pitch like thugs and mauraded round like wild apes hooting and screaming leaping around wildly,there were thousands of them, a sea of Paks swarming the pitch attempting to iradicate anything in thier frenzied path.Poor old guy very nearly died remember and these clowns were said to be British, they may well technically be British but only by a poece of paper called a passport in my book

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-15 8:54:38 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:54:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, I'd call this fairly unsurprising, and not bad news. An overwhelming majority of British Muslims oppose terrorist acts in the USA. An overwhelming majority of the general population do too. But not all. There was a time when a significant minority of Americans were supportive of IRA terrorism. There's a scummy and/or unthinking element in every community and every sector of society.

Of the Muslims I know, none would condone terrorism, and not because, according to Sheikh Nutjob, they are "terrified to speak their minds". A vastly disproportionate number are medical doctors, one's a teacher, one's an agricultural research consultant. Two have served in the Territorial Army. When I go to a Muslim wedding in a month's time, I won't be telling other guests and relatives that they should think about moving out of the country any time soon.

Besides, as far as I'm concerned, dynamic is more important than a snapshot of opinions like this. How well are Muslims integrating with society, with time? Do the younger generation socialise with non-Muslims? Yes. Drink? Yes. Too much, sometimes? Yes. Intermarry? Act as bridesmaids at Anglo-Jewish Church of England wedding ceremonies?! Yes. Take the Koran less seriously than their parents? Yes. My own, personal, experiences of Muslims living in the UK leads me to believe that integration and assimilation is going pretty well. The size of the fanatical and anti-Western element should not be overstated.

Of course the Muslim community is almost as varied as the national community, and attitudes and outlook vary from one group to the next. Assimilation will be a multi-speed process. My own experiences are admittedly subject to selection bias. Howard's right to point out that it isn't only Muslims who would fail the cricket test. Personally, the day people are collectively expatriated from the UK simply on the basis of their religion, race or parental place of origin, is the day that I would leave too, of my own volition.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-3-15 9:12:08 AM|| 2004-3-15 9:12:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Hear hear.. quite agree. Whilst the majority of my Muslim friends and colleagues are perfectly well adjusted people as defined above, it seems some have mighty dubious views about 9/11 though, and we certainly should irradicate scum like Hamza and Bhakri Mohamed (Al-Muj) overnight. Things will get better in time I am sure, but there could be a bomb next week...

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 9:41:48 AM|| 2004-3-15 9:41:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Having said that, when they discovered the ready-to-blow suicide bomber in Gloucester, it seemed that the entire Pak community there came out to protest about police racism. Very misguided behaviour methinks. No wonder your average Brit is paranoid wheen you see them so vociferously protesting their right to have high explosives around the home!

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 10:08:31 AM|| 2004-3-15 10:08:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 hey its not just the homes of the Paks thier allowed to keep thier explosives, you forgot Mosques too,watch out for the 'scud' shaped minarete (tower thing) on it. :)

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-15 10:28:16 AM|| 2004-3-15 10:28:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 And we all know what was found when they raided Finsbury Park Mosque. All the necessaries for the Mulsim sacraments - fake credit cards & passports, CS gas, baseball bats etc etc..
Get rid of the extremists and we may achieve true assimilation.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-3-15 10:36:39 AM|| 2004-3-15 10:36:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 It this is the case, half of Los Angeles would be deported to Mexico after the next soccer game.

Half? How about 5/8? Or 3/4?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-15 11:09:15 AM|| 2004-3-15 11:09:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 half of Los Angeles would be deported to Mexico after the next soccer game.
Ed, you say that as if it were a bad thing...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-15 3:03:14 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-15 3:03:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Only 1 in 10? Damn, I'm impressed! I would have guessed 9 in 10.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-3-15 6:21:50 PM|| 2004-3-15 6:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Bulldog, homogenous rooting for the home team makes for a dull match, anyway. No Red Sox home game would be complete without 5,000 plus Yankees fans.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-15 8:54:30 PM|| 2004-3-15 8:54:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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