Is it just me, or is anyone else a little unsettled by some of the reaction to the proposed Islam4UK March in Wootton Bassett? While I abhor everything Anjem Choudary stands for (as far as I know anyway - I don't know him all that well after all), when I see language like "go back to where you came from" (I paraphrase, but it's a pretty common theme in the multitude of facebook groups that declare THIS IS NOT A RACIST GROUP BUT...), I do worry that it is actually fuelled by more than a little racism. You read the groups a little more carefully and it gets worse. "Islamic people are taking the piss out of our country", "these people give up there lives to stop the iraqi's taking over the fucking world" and "lets fuckin kill them all" (I hope you can tell from the spellings that this time I'm not paraphrasing). I can kind of see why people from Muslim backgrounds might be feeling a little alienated at this point. In fact, probably a few people from other asian backgrounds may be feeling the same way, since the thing about discrimination is, it doesn't always discrimate accurately.
And I haven't even mentioned the BNP.
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