RE: Whats your experience with Muslim neighborhoods and Muslims in your country ?
January 17, 2015 at 6:36 am
Lots of Asian Muslims in my home town. Areas turned over to Islam, street furniture: large ironwork gateways to streets with Islamic symbols. Huge mosques, calls to prayer publicly broadcast over several areas. My schools were 60% Asian. My old house is now a Muslim barbers. Many Muslim people visit town in full dress. The local signage is all multi language (3 or 4). Jobs with the local authority are prioritised to people who speak an Asian language. Ours is the first UK city to have a majority Asian population.
It's always enlightening to hear the Asian perspective. The ordinary person in the street. Muslims have ghettoized, even the other Asians feel it. They're quite exclusive and insular in our community. Negative experience I've had: I was driving a mini bus that was attacked by a gang of youths kicking it and using threatening language. Kids at school protesting that the Muslims were bullying them. Personally I think the locals were being racist. I don't know.
Otherwise my experience has been positive. Especially with females. Those tend to be younger girls that work in city jobs. At work relations are great. Always friendly and open.
It's always enlightening to hear the Asian perspective. The ordinary person in the street. Muslims have ghettoized, even the other Asians feel it. They're quite exclusive and insular in our community. Negative experience I've had: I was driving a mini bus that was attacked by a gang of youths kicking it and using threatening language. Kids at school protesting that the Muslims were bullying them. Personally I think the locals were being racist. I don't know.
Otherwise my experience has been positive. Especially with females. Those tend to be younger girls that work in city jobs. At work relations are great. Always friendly and open.
