[Debate] British muslims - is there such a creature?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Are there any exit polls of Bradford West voters re: who voted which
way and why?

Also, has there been a survey of British protests & protesters like
the IDASA Afrobarometer survey of South African protests & protesters
that Patrick just posted?

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:22 AM, LFC Scally <lfcscally at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing wromg with it if we accept that this seemingly homogenous Muslim
> community only gets involved in anti-war politics-which I have to say could
> not be further from the truth for the people I worked with and met when I
> lived and worked in Bradford between 2008-2009. I think Larry Elliot's piece
> was much closer to the mark. One of the impacts of Blair's disgusting war on
> terror at home around civil liberties, together with the drip-drip of
> anti-Muslim propaganda, dressed up as fighting terrorism in the UK,
> Islamaphobia etc etc, was to frighten some people who identified as Muslims
> and to some degree it worked . In Bradford leading members of the Muslim
> community, especially in the mosques, backed right off from any political
> activity. For example, many mosques have given to strike funds in the past
> (shock, horror) yet when two Muslim T&G shop stewards went to one main
> mosque around, I think it was the postal workers dispute in 2008, they would
> not even allow them to make a  collection for the strikers and effectively
> told they don't get involved in politics any more. This is yet another
> reason to celebrate Galloway's win as I think it will encourage those that
> were frightened to have more confidence. And another reason to ignore
> Hasan's article that also reads like some rant from Jack Straw or a Blairite
> thunk tonk  during that horrible period in the UK.
>
> Peter
> ________________________________
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:06:53 +0300
> From: riaz.tayob at gmail.com
> To: debate-list at fahamu.org
>
> Subject: Re: [Debate] British muslims - is there such a creature?
>
> May be so, but what is wrong with an exhortation (at most generous) to get
> more involved in the polity beyond issues circumscribed (wrongly) by
> religious affiliation?
>
> On 2012/04/02 04:35 PM, Neville Adams wrote:
>
> Over generalised and essentialised argument, but if galloway did issue such
> a leaflet he’s an even bigger plonker than I originally thought he was.
>
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