UK multiculturalism hits the skids in Leicester

[TSwizzle]

Apparently tensions have been simmering for weeks and now things have kicked off between the muslims and hindus;

Leicester had been upheld a one of the UK's most successful multi-cultural communities in Great Britain. But violence erupted in the past few days with 25 police officers being injured and 47 arrests made in the city. Riots blamed on a cricket match between India and Pakistan, but Nick Fagge says Leicester is a 'tinderbox'. This week 200 Muslim men protested at in Birmingham against Hindu woman linked to extremism in India. After the most recent clashes in Leicester, MailOnline sent reporter Nick Fagge inside a city at war

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Good luck keeping a lid on that.

 

[Oleg]

People bring their culture and greivances with them when the immigrate. I'm shocked.

 

[bilby]

Either of you ever visited Leicester?

Thought not.

There are very few immigrants in Leicester. The Muslim and Hindu population of the city are mostly the children or grandchildren, and even great- and great-great-grandchildren, of people who emigrated from the Indian subcontinent in the 1940s and '50s.

You (or rather, the Daily Fail, on whom you foolishly rely for "news") could find similar religious tensions in many British cities; Belfast, Liverpool and Glasgow all spring to mind as places where such conflicts are common. Of course, the difference in those cities is that the belligerents are white Catholics and white Protestants, and therefore not useful exemplars of the fiction that "immigrants are ruing everything".

And, of course, in all four cities, violent thugs using religion as an excuse for violence are a tiny minority of the religious communities they claim to represent.

I know Leicester very well, and have a number of friends there still. I can assure you that they don't fear for their safety.

 

[zorq]

From the article:

This is more a story of how political rivalry can quickly escalate into interfaith conflict through social media and misinformation.

'Most of those gangs of men roaming Leicester were said to be from outside the city, looking for trouble and attention. Both Hindu and Muslim groups have been trying to exploit these tensions to attract support.'

Alao...

The violence last weekend was boosted, according to police, by rival gangs of youths from other towns and cities including Birmingham and Luton converging on Leicester, some of them inspired by an online campaign entitled 'We're going to land in Lesta [sic]'.

Just as TSwiz chose to post this to help advance part of his ideological agenda, The conflicts themselves seem to have been (at least in part ) manufactured by parties outside the city to advance their own agendas.

 

[Hermit]

a city at war

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