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AKI's avatar

Indeed. The underlying issues of integration are worse than ever. Dismissing these symptoms just makes it worse.

Just last year we had Muslim riots because social services tried to take a child away from their parents, and a case of a Pakistani father torturing his daughter to death before fleeing the country to Pakistan with the rest of his family.

Could these things have nothing to do with religion or ethnicity? Perhaps. Is that statistically likely? Not really.

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Andrew Old's avatar

"we had Muslim riots because social services tried to take a child away from their parents"

Did we? Where? If you mean Harehills, the family in conflict with social services there were Roma and unlikely to be Muslim.

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AKI's avatar

Oh, wow, you're right! I knew it was a strongly Pakistani neighborhood, so assumed. And apologise for spreading fake news.

But this is a case of the news not actually explaining what is going on, with vague allusions to "communities" which actually hurts more than it helps, as people like me are left to fill in the blanks. Doesn't excuse my accidental smearing, but we have to talk to each other like grown-ups.

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