Just the smallest hint in this article as to why these "race hate" crimes are growing: a passing mention of the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks. But there is no hint here that that holds the key as to how these "racist crimes" can be stopped, and why no amount of propaganda indoctrination will suffice.
"Increase in race hate crimes casts doubt on 'One Scotland' campaign," by Michael Howie in The Scotsman, with thanks to PRCS:
RACIST crime is growing across Scotland despite a multi-million-pound Executive campaign to tackle the problem, new figures obtained by The Scotsman have revealed.Some 3,387 racially-aggravated crimes and offences were recorded by the country's eight police forces between April and December this year, compared with 3,192 during the same period last year - a rise of 6 per cent.
The increase has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Executive's "One Scotland" campaign launched in 2002 to tackle racism in the country's streets and classrooms, and sparked calls for the Jack McConnell, the First Minister, to put the issue on a platform equal in size to the one given to sectarianism in recent months.
Ethnic community leaders are also accusing politicians of failing to wake up to the "elephant in the room" that is growing Islamophobia, saying thousands of Muslims and members of other minority racial groups are continuing to be victimised following the 11 September and 7 July terrorism attacks.
In 2005-6, 4,294 racially-aggravated crimes were recorded by police - 358 every month and more than ten times the level recorded in 2001-2.
Since then, the number has continued to rise according to new figures obtained by The Scotsman, with reported verbal and physical attacks rising to 376 per month....
Osama Saeed comes closest to the problem when he says that "people are more likely to be called a terrorist than a Paki." That shows that many, if not most, of these are not race crimes at all.
But Osama Saeed, Scottish spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, disagreed, saying Asians were increasingly being victimised on religious grounds."The police have not got to grips with the scale of the problem, which is vast. Incidents are not being reported because there isn't a good link-up between communities and the police.
"People are more likely to be called a terrorist than a Paki. It's more likely to be religiously-based abuse, particularly directed against Islam. The One Scotland campaign is fine but it isn't really dealing with the changing face of racism. There's an elephant in the room at the moment, attacks directed at Islam, which no-one is addressing. One Scotland isn't hitting those buttons."
Sandra Deslandes-Clark, executive director of Semper Scotland, the support group for black and ethnic minority police, also agreed that racist attacks were on the rise. She said: "Unfortunately, the 'war on terror' has now almost legitimised racism on our streets.
There are very good reasons why that appears to be so, rooted in the legitimate frustration people feel toward the Muslim leadership, with all its obfuscation and obstruction of anti-terror efforts.
"There need to be stiffer penalties and a higher-profile attempt by the Executive to tackle the problem. We have seen the First Minister speak out about sectarianism, accepting there is a problem and showing unity with police, churches and other groups. We now need the same approach on racism."...NASEEM Akhtar, 44, is from Pakistan and moved to Scotland around 20 years ago. She worked in a shop in Hamilton and never encountered any problems but that all changed when she moved to Motherwell and another shop just over a year ago.
"Since I moved here hardly a day has gone by without racial abuse and hassle. Just last Thursday a group of young boys were standing in the door of the shop. Another two young men, about 26 or 27, were asking for money. I told them to move but they started giving me abuse.
"I was standing at the counter eating a packet of peanuts. One of the young men came in, and I told him to go away. He grabbed the peanuts from me and threw them in my face. He then started calling me names like 'black bitch'. I'm ashamed to repeat the other names he called me. This happens nearly every weekend.
"There isn't very much the police can do if they are under 16. I've been to court four times this year. My husband has been to court four or five times," she said.
Last month a 16-year-old threw a brick at Ms Akhtar's husband, Zahid Tanveer, narrowly missing his head.
Of course, racism isn't really the problem at all. Do Muslims in Britain and America really want to decrease fear and mistrust directed toward them? Easy. Just follow these four simple steps:
- Stop blaming violent acts committed by Muslims in the name of Islam on the various sins of unbelievers.
- Establish nationwide, compulsory programs in American mosques to teach against the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, by means including an explicit and definitive rejection of the literal meaning of many passages of Qur'an and Hadith.
- Stop saying violent or hateful things in private when you think no non-Muslims are around. For example, the imam Umar Abdul-Jalil, executive director of ministerial services for the New York City Department of Correction, was secretly recorded last year while speaking at an Islamic conference in Arizona. Muslims, he said, invoking Qur'an 48:29, must be "compassionate with each other" and "hard against the kufr [unbeliever]." In Britain, Hamid Ali, imam of the mosque frequented by the July 7 bombers, praised the bombers and called their terror attack "good" in a conversation secretly recorded by an undercover journalist. Publicly, he had condemned the attacks. In a mosque in the Czech Republic, a Muslim secretly filmed by a documentary filmmaker says Islamic Shari'a law, including the stoning of adulterers, should be adopted by the Czech Republic. Cleveland imam Fawaz Damra, who has since been ordered deported for failing to disclose his ties to terror groups, signed the Fiqh Council of North America's condemnation of terrorism, despite having declared at an Islamic conference that "terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation."
Do such incidents mean that every Muslim who professes to have adopted Western notions of pluralism and the equality of dignity and rights of non-Muslims and Muslims is dissembling? Of course not. But they do mean that non-Muslims are perfectly justified in being suspicious even when Muslim profess moderation and opposition to terror. Consequently deeds, not just words, are needed. To conclude my four recommendations, genuinely anti-terror Muslims should:
4. Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
But it is unlikely that any of that will be done. Instead, these poor mistrusted, misunderstood folks will keep crying "Islamophobia" and "racism," and trying to manipulate Western legal and political systems.
What is not mentioned in this report is who the victims are. Muslims are also attacking Scots, and as fraction of their numbers, are more likely to committ 'race-hate' crimes then be a victim.
"I was standing at the counter eating a packet of peanuts. One of the young men came in, and I told him to go away. He grabbed the peanuts from me and threw them in my face."
You are not making your point with such a despicable example, Robert.
(I go along with your 4 points in general, but the example is bad)
"Ethnic community leaders are also accusing politicians of failing to wake up to the "elephant in the room" that is growing Islamophobia"
-from the article
Hey!
Now they've stolen our "elephant in the room" bit.
Everyone knows the "elephant in the room" is Islam.
It's a great phrase and it'd be a shame to see the Mohammedans appropriate it for their own nefarious uses.
There is no mention of the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Donald Kriss. Might that be at all relevant to hardening attitudes?
FreesSpeech:
The example comes from the Scotsman article. I am, of course, not condoning loutish behavior by idiots. I am only taking issue with the official diagnosis of what causes such behavior, and what can be done about it.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
(Moslems) reported verbal and physical attacks rising to 376 per month...
Verbal attacks?
Now, I realize that the UK ain't too big on the free speech thing, but being yelled at hardly makes one a crime victim (unless the screaming carried a terroristic threat, to borrow a term from the US penal code).
This is the weakest of agitprop fodder.
Reminds me of the way MADD set it up so that if a family is driving home with grandma in the back seat, she had one wine, nobody else in the car had a drink, and grandma's not even legally drunk, and then all seven people in the family van are suddenly crushed to death in a messy 18-wheeler truck-train accident the poor van drove into, plus the trucker perished, as did the two railroad engineers, resulting in a grand total of 10 people dead due to drunk driving.
Drunk Mosleming? What better place for that than Glasgow.
I happen to live in "Scotland One Country No Place For Racism."
This statement is indeed a Joke when competition for employment is tough and PC Employers would rather give jobs to immigrants as it makes them feel good out their companies image.
Poor employment prospects against a growing tide of Muslim immigration is a recipe for disaster.
Also "Racism against Whites" is a problem. Please read the Kriss Donald case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6123014.stm
Many people I now are too frigtened to say anything about Muslims because they will scream Racism.
Things have got out of hand and there is no easy solution.
Where has multiculturalism ever worked? Some group is always a "victim".
Racism in Scotland is very real and it is not just against muslims or non whites. Religious intolerance is a staple in the West of Scotland. I don't doubt the muslim activists have latched onto this for their own reasons but I know for a fact there are problems. On a recent visit to Edinburgh I was walking along Rose Street and there was a group of neds screaming at some brown skinned lads "F**k of back to Pakistan ya Paki b****rds" etc. This is in one of the busiest streets in Edinburgh !!
TooBad,what is a neds?
If countries like Pakistan made more of an effort at 'diversity' they would find people less irritated at the colonialising approach of Muslims in Britain aided by the ruling elites who act rather like Petain 1940-44.
The simple fact is that Britain is being invaded in battalion strength daily...........
Pakistanis don't BELONG in Scotland. Scotland should be.....well....Scottish.
Holland should be Dutch and Norway should be Norwegian.
I hate what the world has become in the 54 years I've been alive. Everything I love, everything interesting in MY world,which the Judeo-Christian Western Civilization is being crapped on, cheapened, and sold the lowest bidders.
"It's more likely to be religiously-based abuse, particularly directed against Islam."
This is a very irritating statement. The whole world is locked in a fight against the greater jihad based on the teachings of an intolerant religion. If retaliation is perpetrated by non-Muslims, I am not going to automatically condemn someone because of it.
wait, wasn't there an article earlier that showed that jews were more likely to be victims of racism than muslims?
i agree, these allegations of racism should be looked into, and the aggressors punished.
While I think there is no excuse for these yobs calling a Pakistani woman a "black bitch," etc., I must agree with a previous poster who noted that this is simply the price one pays for being a shopkeeper in many parts of the UK. My mother-in-law has a small shop (near Motherwell, incidentally, where the Pakistani lady says she is frequently harassed), and the threats, robberies, vandalism and so on she and her employees have to put up with from teenage scumbags on an almost daily basis are so bad that my husband and I fear for her safety. It is true that the police there are virtually powerless to take action, or at least they are not motivated to do so. My mother-in-law is white and a native Scot, I might add, so the attacks on her and her shop have nothing to do with "racism" or religious bigotry.... Of course, sometimes she is also attacked by "Asian" youths, but funnily enough, she never has complained that those are "race" or "hate" crimes.
i don't condone the violence, or the bigotry; but just because a similar incident has happened personally, and it isn't racism, it doesn't mean there isn't racism, and we should do nothing about it.
i do believe that most of the victims are NOT the muslims that the article seems to alluding to. i believe that these muslims, themselves, are the perpetrators of such crimes.
Hmmm....Naseem, originally from Pakistan, the shop clerk who had the peanuts thrown at her by some juvenile delinquents. Could that possibly the same Naseem who sometimes visits Jihadwatch? The name is the same and so are the claims of victimhood against all people and places not Muslim. Naseem is very capable of making trouble on her own, with her racist remarks, religious bigotry, and overt threats. I have a feeling there is more to the story than the reporter is telling his readers.
This was in the comments section of The Scotsman article.
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The Times - 12th November 2006
"The British Crime Survey reveals that in 2004, 87,000 people who described themselves as black or minority ethnic (BME) had been victims of what they believed was a racially motivated crime. They had suffered 49,000 violent attacks, with 4,000 being wounded.
At the same time a staggering 92,000 white people also said that racism was the cause of an attack or crime they had suffered. The number of violent attacks against whites reached 77,000, while the number of white people who reported being wounded was five times the number of black and minority ethnic victims at 20,000".
Based on the ratio of BME to whites in the UK, these figures show an alarming picture of the truth about racist attacks.
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Many people I now are too frigtened to say anything about Muslims because they will scream Racism.
The 6th Pillar of Islam:
It is every Moslem's duty to project a pervasive fear among Infidels who dare to criticize Islam of personal ruination, injury, or even death, and the same pending result to their families, colleagues, and neighbors so as to let all Moslems collect the fruits of prerogative that such fear yields.
At the same time a staggering 92,000 white people also said that racism was the cause of an attack or crime they had suffered. The number of violent attacks against whites reached 77,000, while the number of white people who reported being wounded was five times the number of black and minority ethnic victims at 20,000". Posted by Borg
According to the Politically Correct Gestapo, it is "impossible" for a white person to be a victim of racism because whites are oppressors of "minorities." The really hilarious contradition of this absurdity is that whites are the only real minority in the world. And if the social engineers have their way, whites will eventually become extinct. That is why the third world, non-white hordes were unleashed and dumped en masse into Western nations. As soon as the evil white race is eradicated, humanity will live in peace and harmony, or so they say.
"Pakistanis don't BELONG in Scotland. Scotland should be.....well....Scottish.
Holland should be Dutch and Norway should be Norwegian. "
Sorry, I disagree. This does smack of racism and brings the tone of this site down. I don't care about melanin, except that here in NZ, with low ozone, more is better. All I care about is people's values.
Anyway, if people feel strongly about producing children with similar colouring to their own, they will presumably mate appropriately.
The most refined, cultured (and beautiful) Englishwoman I know is black, BTW.
I think that if Muslims stopped making a blanket statement about vandalism to Mosques as be Islamophobic Hate-crimes even when not one piece of evidence show who did it , or if even a non-Muslims was behind it.
The bombing of Mosques in Iraq is a Muslim on Muslim killing and we never here the term "Hate-crime" or Islamophobia when those Mosques are attacked, so basically if Muslims murder each other it's Allah's will to filter out the Good Muslims and the Jihad is valid because of Judgement on Earth by followers of Allah.
But if any Mosque in the West is attacked by those same thugs it is part of the Islamic ruse to blame the infidels and label it a Hate-crime, as if fire-bombing any building or home is done because the arsonist LIKES the people or religion.
In Canada just after the 9/11 attack there was a shamefull display of Arab and Muslim youths on the CBC that were boasting about how the victims deserved it for supporting the Zionists pigs that murder Palestinians or kill Muslims around the World , so lo and behold while the Jewish population saw aspike in attacks on them and their property it was the Muslims claiming they were the victims of Islamophobia .
The real kicker for this farce and doctored claims of hate-crimes was a article I read about a Imam that said many of the females at the Mosque are reporting that "People are looking at them as if they are terrorists" , talk about lies and paranoia , after reading that I started to wear my sun glasses to avoid any hurt feelings
or allegations I "Looked at them as if they were a terrorist" .
The Stats-Canada figures prove that CAIR-Can lied , and I made it a crusade to follow these claims in the Media, and guess what , out of close to 600 alleged Islamophobia hate-crimes the Police wittled them down to about 120 that merit further looking into , and from there about 24
netted any valid case for arrests but only about 12 saw actual charges , and to-date I have yet to see just one of those cases posted on the Front pages of a Newspaper to back up the Hate-crimes against Muslims or Prove the Religion and Citizenship of the persons that when to trial and what % ended in Convictions.
CAIR's very own website instructs Muslims to demand the Police take your complaint as a Hate-Crime and get all the ID of the Officers and contact the media to force a follow-up on the alleged crime or use the Newspapers to smear the Police or Companies not acting fast enough with redress.
Czech documentary mentioned in article (with English subtitles) can be found here.
iSLAM IS A ROOT CAUSE OF RACISM
A new expression of intolerance "Peanuts thrown in your face while being Muslim". Will it never end.. the shame .. the horror .. and what if the victim had an allergic reaction to the flying peanut dust?
You know, I've noticed a connection here...every time the Muslims move into an area, the people who already lived there are accused of Islamaphobia. Could there be something that Muslims do to irritate native born populations in the countries they go into?
Which came first, the Muslim or the Islamaphobia?
"Could there be something that Muslims do to irritate native born populations in the countries they go into?"
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader
Yeah. They live and breathe. And breed like rats.
Before 9/11 I had no animosity to muslims/arabs/pakis/etc. I even became familiar with some of their words of greeting to make them feel comfortable. Then 9/11. Now after reading volumes of muslim acts of terror and their history I have a more realistic idea of the danger that lurks. Through this site I made contact with a muslima (25 year old Iranian immigrant residing in Washington, D.C.)and we have exchanged a dozen or so emails. Blantantly, she says things like, "When we take over you will be one of the first ones stoned." "Islam does not want filthy people like you to convert to islam polluting our religion." I will continue to point out the fallacies of mohammed and allah to her. So far she replied to one of my emails in which I said mohammed consumated his marriage of his nine year old childbride. I called it what it was. Rape. Her only retort is the denial that "mohammed was not a rapist." Just letting them know that Westerners/Americans/Freedom Lovers are wiseing up to the muslim menace is their rude awakening. We ain't going to roll over for these brainwashed mutants. Islam is an evil ideology masquerading as a religion. I am hoping that my saying that than 1400 years ago there was no allah. That allah is the figment of mohammed's imagination backed up with lies and deception which in turn are backed up by death. That he formed a religion making it a men's club with women sex slaves. Maybe she will wake up!
"Now they've stolen our "elephant in the room" bit."
Mike_W
Yea, it's like the "camel's nose under the tent flap."
How does that phrase go?
Truth Seeker,
Isn't it so illogical that this chick would defend her own future enslavement and demise? But then you said she lives in D.C. so she probably has never had to put up with the crap those poor girls do over in Egypt, Iran and Somalia.
It is very brave to talk about taking over when she doesn't have a clue what will replace the system that guarantees her freedom here. We can't afford to wait around for her to have a revelation. We've got to get rid of the menace now. But keep up the good work. She will probably be useful in teaching you the mind numbing dumb things Muslims say to defend their beliefs and that will help you glean important information so you can debate others who are more willing to listen to the possiblity that being Islamic sucks!
"Ethnic community leaders are also accusing politicians of failing to wake up to the "elephant in the room" that is growing Islamophobia, saying thousands of Muslims and members of other minority racial groups are continuing to be victimised following the 11 September and 7 July terrorism attacks."
This just sounds like progressive politics to me.
Islamaphobia, or as I like to call it, "Logical fear of being killed by those who explicitly state the desire to do so", is warranted.
The concept of "Growing" Islamophobia is indeed quite hopeful, from my point of view.
A NED is a Negligibly Educated Delinquent, most often seen within the Chav subculture. (CHAV - Council House And Violent). Basically they're idiots who hurl abuse at anyone unlike themselves, and it doesn't have to be somebody of a different race either, it could just be somebody who dresses differently from them, i.e somebody who doesn't weal light colored tracksuits with shitloads of bling (large gold jewelry), or somebody who doesn't listen to R&B, Rap and HipHop.
While these types are certainly a public nuisance, I've never heard of a NED blowing something up whilst shouting 'Allahu Akbar'. The NEDs are simply reacting to the legitimate grievences of white people in the UK who have to put up with being treated as second class citizens to immigrants. Mass unemployment and poverty are a part of life in the UK, and yet the government brings in more Middle Eastern immigrants, punishes any business who doesn't give those immigrants first priority for employment, and then wonders why there is a problem. Doesn't take a genius to realise that enough is enough.
Of course, the immigrants can whine and complain and their complaints are taken seriously, but if a native brit dare complain then he or she is automatically viewed as a racist after being smeared by the media.
Anti-white racism is alive and kicking in all parts of the UK, but nobody will talk about it.
I read reports of indigenous Scottish anger against the Muslims in their land with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I'm a bit off-white myself; and I dread real, old-fashioned racism (which still rears its ugly head, alas--although I daresay most Western countries, especially those that speak English, are infinitely more accepting of ethnic minorities than the rest of the world).
On the other--The Ummah needs to understand that when its British representatives hail the beating of Donald Kriss, the attacks on the London "chewb", and the contempt with which Muslims treat women who are not in hijab, it is bound to provoke some justifiable anger.
Lili:
you should take great comfort in the fact that nearly all european leaders agree with you. enjoy.
true racism should be condemned of course. but the charge of racism is an excellent weapon of choice used constantly by those who seek the power and possessions of others. see jesse jackson and al sharpton as two examples.
Some of these 'racist incidents' are made up:
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=562&id=1911762006
“A SIKH schoolboy who provoked national outrage when he claimed his hair had been cut off in a racial attack invented the story, it has emerged.
The news has led a senior MSP to speak out over a tendency among Scots to think the worst of themselves when it comes to racism.”
Google 'Kriss Donald' for a real racist incident.
I have a serious question for the group: Why is it that of all the people on earth only one race is formally being taught to hate itself? think that is a joke? take a look at this story from Frontpage Magazine:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8565
This is all too real and it is evil. think this isn't related to some of our current problems? please allow me to differ with you if so.
SouthBeach,
OK, let's follow this through. Holland should be Dutch. Norway Norwegian. New Zealand should be Maori - I should be deported back where my family came from 3 generations ago. England should be Celtic. Or Anglo-Saxon (damn Germans!). The US should be Native American - where would you go?
I think we're better off focusing on what matters: people's basic values. Not their melanin level or harmless aspects of their culture.
Lili, I would be most happy to follow this through with you. First, I never said anything about deportations. Second, your response to the statement:
"Pakistanis don't BELONG in Scotland. Scotland should be.....well....Scottish.
Holland should be Dutch and Norway should be Norwegian."
Was, "Sorry, I disagree. This does smack of racism and brings the tone of this site down."
So then your premise is that if the people whose ancestral homelands are Scotland, Holland, or Norway wish for their homelands to remain predominantly Scotish, Dutch, or Norwegian, that makes them racist? Do Caucasian people have any right to their own ancestral homelands? How exactly, does that make them racist if they think do?
I believe that Scotland belongs to the Scottish people, Holland belongs to the Dutch people, and Norway belongs to the Norwegian people. I believe that those countries are sovereign and that the peoples of those countries have the right to allow or disallow any people they so choose to enter their countries. If they so choose to disallow Muslims or anyone else into their countries, that is entirely their right. Those countries belong to them and they have the right to set immigration policy as they see fit. Does that make them racist? If so, why?
I believe that organizations like CAIR and others are using the race card to play upon the "White Guilt" spoken of by Thomas Sowell and others to advance their own cause. I think the charges of "racism" are constantly used by Muslims and others as a weapon against all Western nations and the indigenous people therein.
To see just how far gone things are in Britain, see the entry here for April 21, 2006:
http://dailyablution.blogs.com/the_daily_ablution/2006/04/index.html
One other thought Lili, I noticed that you said:
"Anyway, if people feel strongly about producing children with similar colouring to their own, they will presumably mate appropriately."
My husband and I have two teenaged daughters. We have expressed to them our desire that they marry within their own traditions, culture, and people. Does that make my husband and I racist? Last year, a Muslim boy who attends the same high school as my eldest daughter kept pressuring her to date him. She politely refused. Since then he has repeatedly called her a "racist" for not going out with him. She is beginning to feel bad about that. Is he right? Is she a racist?
NO. She is growing up as a woman who will not be manipulated by blackmail - because when a boy tries that tactice he ends up with physical violence. It is all about HIM and his wants.
She can refuse whomsoever she wants without justifying it to anyone. He is obviously a problem and will be in the future because he cannot accept that a woman has rights to an independent opinion and her own preferences.
I believe that Scotland belongs to the Scottish people
Wrong ! Act of Union 1707 following upon the Accession to The Throne of England by James VI, King of Scotland, 1603.
It may be that The Citizens of Texas have the right to refuse entry to those not born in The Lone Star State or who had no ancestors living there prior to 1846; but I do not know if Texas has its own immigration policy and foreign policy...............until 1846 Britain tried to ensure that it did. Whatever happened ?
Someone said...Where is this moderate Islam? Why is an "infidel" explaining that global terrorism is a warped misinterpretation of Islam? Shouldn't it be Muslim's speaking for (not to mention protecting) their own religion? Where are the masses of Muslims who are leading or at least joining the war on terror?. and I can only agree with him/her...
Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff planners have produced a 27-page briefing, they have said that even support of 1 percent of the Muslim population would equate to over 12 million 'enemies.' " thus Islamic extremists may be supported by 12 million Muslims worldwide, but some say that it could be as high as 30%, but even a 10% is horrific and from the lack of outrage from Muslims of attrocities done by Muslims world wide it could be far more.
1% is the number of Muslims who committ acts of terrorism however there is about 30% who agree with these acts and thus could be easily recruited. Even in the UK 40% of "them" want Sharia law.
So Mr. Blair where are the other 99% of moderate Muslims who are joining the war against terror, if there is 1% (over 12 million) terrorists world wide then there should be 99% of muslims fighting it, but we dont even here a genuine 20th of a percent fighting it, their voices are quite. hmmmm... wake up you fool before you kill us all..
I don't want to be tough on the woman being victimized here. Obviously, she is working in a shop and is not locked in the home, therefore, she can't be a Salafist Muslim. Because she works in a shop, its not likely that she wears a veil either.
Maybe the real damn problem here is that the judicial system is so bent over on protecting the rights of criminals that they don't do a damn thing to protect victimized citizens.
They can't arrest a 15 or 16 year old for abusing an immigrant because he's a juvenile.
They can't profile Muslims at airports because this is discriminatory.
They have to show leniency with Muslims because those people suffer from discrimination.
Basically, they can't protect anyone from anything.
Countries should indeed have sensible immigration policies: avoid overpopulation and keep out groups that won't agree with the important principles of the country.
However, a policy that keeps people out solely because they are a different race is racist. If the Maori here in NZ start telling the pakeha (white people) to 'go home' (as some activists do), then that is racist. It could be justified, fair, great for them (probably not). But it is racist.
The issue of your daughter being harrassed is a totally different matter. I would hope she could defend herself from any unwanted advances from anyone.
I would also hope that if she falls in love with a decent man of any colour, she will feel free, and supported by you, in her choice.
Southbeach,
Your daughter's potential suitor is merely a "spoil sport", who in typical islamic supremist fashion, feels the whole world is his personal oyster house and he is entitled to all. This type never takes rejection well,(nor truly respects non-muslim women) so please inform your daughter to be careful.
anyone who moves from hamilton to motherwell needs their head seriously examined anyway, in my view