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Originally posted by Skunk:
"...a gang of masked Muslim youths attacked St Philip's parish church in the Girlington area of Bradford. They let off fireworks inside, burnt the altar cloth and left prayer books strewn across the floor. They also threw stones at the vicar and chased him as he tried to escape in his car.
On the same night in Leeds, a gang of Muslim youths vandalised vehicles and threatened white residents. They chanted "Get out of Afghanistan" and ordered drivers to say "Osama Bin Laden rules". Some who refused had their cars pelted with bricks and fireworks thrown through their windows.
In Manchester, 50 asylum-seekers, many of them Afghans, had to be evacuated last week after a gang of armed men rammed their hostel in a stolen car.
The Forum Against Islamophobia & Racism (Fair) also has a list of offences. It describes one at the Islamic Centre of the South West in Exeter in which racists singled out the Muslim revulsion of pork: "Ten pigs' heads were deliberately dumped in the centre's car park."
The question now is, what happens to race relations in the post-Taliban world?...
All of that is unacceptable! The people who did these things were just as wrong and misguided as those American's who attacked Muslims in the first few days after September 11th. It's wrong for the non-Muslim population to blame the Muslim population for what happened and the other way around. Strange that they feel that strongly about Osama, and yet the nations in the Middle East are in favor of both his and the Taliban's removal.
The Taliban are a radical religious/political group. The Afghan people are the ones with the right to Afghanistan. It still boggles my mind that people so hate the West that they would favor the Taliban and Osama over the Afghan people. No matter what "injustices" the West has committed, why should their own people be so unimportant?
What happens post-Taliban? The UN tries to bring Afghanistan back together, and feeds the hungry. That's the first of many steps, but some people will never be changed. There are those who will hate regardless of the situation, the goal is to eliminate their power and ability to do harm.
Skunk, do you have any other polls on coalition nations? You don't have to post them if you don't want, but you could email me if you don't mind.
[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]