RE: Whats your experience with Muslim neighborhoods and Muslims in your country ?
January 27, 2015 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2015 at 6:30 am by Regina.)
I live in a UK city which has a very large Muslim minority. On the whole they are fine (because as I insist my problem with religion isn't with religious people, it's with religion itself).
I don't think I've ever had any real issue with an individual Muslim (not because of their religion I mean), although going to my Nan's neighbourhood (which is almost exclusively Muslim apart from her now) is uncomfortable because we get stared at like "what you doing here?". The area she lives in has streets that are only one step above a slum if I'm honest, and apparently it never used to be that way when the area was more diverse, don't know if there's a connection there. That said, there are some horrible neighbourhoods in my city (local to my area even) that are not Muslim at all so I'm not going to pretend this is just Muslims. There are also Muslims in my city that have great jobs, work hard and live in huge houses, so it's not all Muslims and I won't generalise.
I don't think I've ever had any real issue with an individual Muslim (not because of their religion I mean), although going to my Nan's neighbourhood (which is almost exclusively Muslim apart from her now) is uncomfortable because we get stared at like "what you doing here?". The area she lives in has streets that are only one step above a slum if I'm honest, and apparently it never used to be that way when the area was more diverse, don't know if there's a connection there. That said, there are some horrible neighbourhoods in my city (local to my area even) that are not Muslim at all so I'm not going to pretend this is just Muslims. There are also Muslims in my city that have great jobs, work hard and live in huge houses, so it's not all Muslims and I won't generalise.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
