“People are sick to death with pussy-footing around Muslim sensibilities and fed up with stories about veils, crucifixes and terrorist sympathisers having more rights than the average Joe.
“Last week I said let’s treat Muslims the same as every other Brit and I am delighted to see that at last some politicians are waking up, smelling the coffee and realising that I am right. It’s great that Race Minister Phil Woolas has finally discovered a backbone and told the Dewsbury Dalek that she either lifts the veil or picks up her P45. David Davis from the Tories is also right to warn Muslim leaders that they are ‘creating apartheid by shutting themselves off’.
“Now a new poll this weekend shows clearly that 57 per cent of voters want Muslims to do more to fit in. But still the so-called Muslim leaders don’t get it, do they? Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council Of Britain, says: ‘No group in Britain has been as systematically vilified in recent years in the media as British Muslims’.
“Oh, Inayat, please put a sock in it will you, mate. Look, no group in Britain has been such a pain in the burka as some of the Muslims in recent years and no group has contained elements that wanted to blow themselves and the rest of us up. The problem lies with your community and their failure to integrate, not with the majority population. The sooner you realise that and cease celebrating your victimhood and stop bleating about Islamophobia, the better for all of us.”
Jon Gaunt in The Sun, 17 October 2006
Why these ‘leaders’ are a pain in the burkas
By Jon Gaunt
The Sun, 17 October 2006
PEOPLE are sick to death with pussy-footing around Muslim sensibilities and fed up with stories about veils, crucifixes and terrorist sympathisers having more rights than the average Joe.
Last week I said let’s treat Muslims the same as every other Brit and I am delighted to see that at last some politicians are waking up, smelling the coffee and realising that I am right.
It’s great that Race Minister Phil Woolas has finally discovered a backbone and told the Dewsbury Dalek that she either lifts the veil or picks up her P45.
David Davis from the Tories is also right to warn Muslim leaders that they are “creating apartheid by shutting themselves off.”
Now a new poll this weekend shows clearly that 57 per cent of voters want Muslims to do more to fit in. But still the so-called Muslim leaders don’t get it, do they?
Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council Of Britain, says: “No group in Britain has been as systematically vilified in recent years in the media as British Muslims”.
Oh, Inayat, please put a sock in it will you, mate.
Look, no group in Britain has been such a pain in the burka as some of the Muslims in recent years and no group has contained elements that wanted to blow themselves and the rest of us up.
The problem lies with your community and their failure to integrate, not with the majority population.
The sooner you realise that and cease celebrating your victimhood and stop bleating about Islamophobia, the better for all of us.
Instead of blaming the media for Muslim problems, Inayat and his pal Dr Bari with the dodgy Ted Rogers wig should first make sure that they actually represent the community they claim to speak for.
If they’re so keen on fair play, why don’t they hold open and free elections to elect themselves to their positions of responsibility? In fact, let’s go one step further. Why do we need a separatist council?
Why can’t local MPs represent all sections of communities, then Inayat can stand for election to a real council or Parliament.
Once they’ve done that they and the rest of their community need to do more to weed out the terrorist cancer in their midst and persuade the one in ten members of their community who say they sympathised with the 7/7 bombers that they are wrong.
This latest row about the veil, just like all the other stories from the uppity Luton schoolgirl to the “pick and mix” Muslim copper, isn’t about religion in the workplace.
Rather it’s about SOME Muslims wanting to impose their own outdated and outmoded form of Islam on the non-Muslim majority in this country.
Other groups like the Jews, Sikhs and Hindus have fitted in while retaining their own deeply held beliefs and customs. Why can’t the Muslims?
Despite massive provocation, Brits of all religious and ethnic backgrounds have shown remarkable patience and restraint since 7/7.
However, judging by my mailbag and the phone calls to my TalkSport show this patience is now wearing thin.
Politicians, but more importantly the Muslim community and its leaders, need to do more to show that this is a United Kingdom, not a collection of different religious and ethnic ghettos.