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In reply to the discussion: Europe - migrants - Cologne attacks - The comments section on this Guardian article... [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,227 posts)I've seen you on any number of threads expressing fears that some Muslim's going to molest your catsitting neighbour, that "they" are coming to take over the UK/Scotland and molest and beat us all up and worse, we're all doomed etc. etc.
That's adding fuel to the fire of generally only some Americans' concerns on this forum and presenting a false view of the situation and perceptions in the UK in my experience. Got that?
I live in Scotland, as I believe you do. We've long had problems with race. They've almost always involved white, often sectarian, thugs setting about those who look like they're from another race, including blameless Muslims. I'm not from any visually identifiable minority, but walking around any of our cities and towns, I'm much, much more likely to be set upon by indigenous neds on the razz than any Muslim individual or group (and the same goes for my wife, and my friends, of whatever gender or race).
Given that we have a long record of not having an at all serious problem with Muslim radicalization in Scotland, I don't see that changing, and I find your implications that it's happening or going to happen a slur on my home country and its proud record of constructive assimilation of minorities. I do not recognize this concern you keep expressing among those who hoped for independence. In fact, I believe humanitarian concerns and distrust of the rightwing agenda promoted by the yellow press like the Mail and Express are more likely to be the norm, because we've suffered from it ourselves. If a bunch of eejits crowdstormed an online comments section on a particularly charged issue, I'm not surprised one bit. Welcome to the age of social media and online opinion manipulation at the click of a mouse or tap of a fondleslab.
We have a refugee programme that's very strictly controlled and already follows many of the strictures that even most of those on these threads who have expressed concern about immigration consider sensible. The UK hasn't exactly thrown its doors open to all-comers, and that's not likely to change.
Now, I'm not going to get into even more of your series of long exchanges about this because I find your attitudes and conduct here extremely distasteful, and each time such an exchange happens, it just bumps these threads as they were about to sink out of sight. So go use somebody else to try to maintain visibility for this spectacle.
If I'd wanted to converse with you, I'd have addressed you in this thread. I have absolutely no wish to.
So good day, sir. I said good day.