Edmund Burke wrote
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".
The perception by many non-muslims in this country is that 'good' muslims will not turn on the 'evil' ones because being a muslim is more important than being British.
Some of the community leaders still hold quite a lot of power in their mosques and local areas. It is noticeable that many of the people convicted of vote fraud in areas like Birmingham, Slough etc have been muslim councillors/candidates.
The area where I used to live in the West Mids has a very high muslim population. And as Tom says there is not that much trouble between muslim and non-muslim. But, the main reason for that is that there is very little contact between the two communities. The muslims are ghettoising themselves. Many of the schools in the area are 80%+ muslim, after school the kids go to mosque school for 3 hours, there is very little contact with non-muslims even for the kids. More muslim faith schools are opening, this will lead to even less contact.
As one white teenager frighteningly explained a few weeks ago
" I don't mind the muslims having their own ghetto, because when the time comes to take our town back we will know where to find them".
At the same club another one told me
"It's bad enough living next to a **** without living next to Pakistan". He also said that he wished that,
"the BNP would stand in this town, but they won't because there aren't enough white people left".
To hear that reasoning from people who have lived through the changes in their community, and don't like them is bad enough. But to hear that kind of talk from 15 year olds who have lived next to muslims all of their life I find threatening, worrying and very sad.
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