Fox News does it again

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I might say something people will bash me for here, but you know what? He isn't that far wrong.


I come from Birmingham and I've lived there for 21 years. While it's not an 'entirely' muslim city, sure, there are still areas that are what you'd call "muslim areas" and this is widely known to pretty much anyone who's ever visited the place or lived there. People might not want to admit it, and people might not want to hear it, but these places are pure shitholes. There's trash on the streets, homes in a constant state of disrepair, and all you see are people in Islamic garments. They're like ghettos.

He's also not wrong in that there are groups of twats who go around threatening people and trying to impose sharia law in their areas.

It's not like it hasn't already been reported on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsG-u2GtZE

He said it in the most sensationalist way sure, but people who are saying he's a complete idiot are kind of getting on my tits. I've heard plenty of people who actually live in Birmingham say the same sort of thing as what this guy did while they're down the pub.

The response, especially on my facebook newsfeed where the majority of my friends are from Birmingham, is actually pissing me off a bit. People are suddenly getting self righteous and acting like Birmingham doesn't have a problem with these muslim communities. Like it's such a perfect multicultural society, and that we're proud of it. That's fucking bollocks. I'm pretty sure I made a thread a couple years ago on here about the muslim only areas in my city. If you're not a muslim, you would be scared to step out of your car in these places. Not for shit reasons either.

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Don't confuse the failures of multi-cultural societies with racism.

Yes, Birmingham has problems but for the record (and I didn't hear this off a bloke down the pub) the Demography of Birmingham;

57.935 - British white
26.62 % Asian or British Asian
8.89% black or Black British
4.44% Mixed
2.03% Other

Source

Yes, there are culturally dense areas where a minority culture predominates but they are still under UK Law and that is not going to change any time soon. The vast majority of these culturally dense areas are filled with Law abiding citizens.

If you look at the languages of the Asian group then you will see they are again sub-divided into many different languages, the largest of which is Urdu, representing only 2.87% of the population of Birmingham. There is not one mass of unified minorities attempting to usurp the population, the only way that will happen is if they are forced together in adversity by racist ass-hats.

I agree that there is a problem with multi-cultural societies, they don't work well as they are currently constructed, I'm not in a position to propose a solution to all the problems but I'm very much for trying to solve them and I'm fairly certain the solution is not to go on US TV and make shit up, which is why, I assume, most people in this thread are pissed off.

MM