Muslim family attacked

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....es-Christian-man.html

Should this family be forced to accept this racist and bigoted attitude off their fellow Muslims?

/// A Coventry Police spokesman said they received an allegation from the family on July 20 and are investigating the matter. ///

It would be interesting to see what action the police will take when they have finally investigated the case.

[daisya]

No one should have to accept racists or bigots whoever they are no matter what their culture or religion. I hope the people concerned are pursued and brought to book asap.

[Bobbisox]

what daisya sais

[emmie]

No they shouldn't. Lets hope they find out who was responsible and punish accordingly

[Snafu03]

i remember watching a documentary about 20 years ago about a similar happening, muslim girl gets involved with white english guy.

they literally had to move constantly as the tightknit muslim community would only be more than helpful in supplying the girls family with the details of their whereabouts.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I've friends who cannot marry because of religion, and friends who've been forced to move away from their homelands because of wanting to 'intermarry' (what a puke expression - thanks bigots!). That's just in the six counties. There is so much going on in just this little Queendom that people ignore.

[IggyB]

Its an interesting thread - not just for the story but also because it helps to highlight something I feel a lot of people (especially on AB) seem to forget - not all Muslims think / behave the same way. We often see threads about one extreme Muslim doing something terrible and people will immediately say that that one person represents all Muslims everywhere across the globe.

[emmie]

Iggy i don't think people do see that, tarring everyone with same brush, its just that when you hear of atrocities carried out in the name of a religion, then sometimes people get angry. These people are being persecuted by some from their own community, how very sad.

[daisya]

There are a lot of bigoted and racist people in all cultures not just what is often stereo-typed as white british. I know personally of some muslim and sikhs who are racially intolerant, so much so that when they marry each other they either have to hide it and not tell their families they are married or the families disown them because of it. Awful to think all this goes on but it shows it does and no group is free from suffering from bigoted people.

[WELSHYORKIE]

IggyB - totally agree with the sentiment and to some extent I would also agree with baret, but they should not have to go to extremes to live their lives in peace.

[emmie]

And that goes for all of us.

[sandyRoe]

I have a niece who married a Protestant. Her husband's aunt, and later an uncle, cut him out of their wills.
Bigotry doesn't come from just one religion.

[emmie]

we know, and no one suggested it does. That's one the reasons i am glad i am an atheist. Seems often to be the source of much discord and hatred.

[Ankou]

"Should this family be forced to accept this racist and bigoted attitude off their fellow Muslims? "

what a ridiculous question.

[Old_Geezer]

Sometimes the problem is not whether something should be the case, but how you prevent it. I suspect it will always be the case that some folk feel compelled to make their fellow human beings' lives a misery. After hundreds of years we clearly haven't solved the problem yet.

[RATTER15]

Well, that's religion for you.

Nasty spiteful behavior by so called peaceable people all over some ridiculous mythical God based culture.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// I have a niece who married a Protestant. Her husband's aunt, and later an uncle, cut him out of their wills.
Bigotry doesn't come from just one religion.///

No Sandy and religion is not the only cause for certain members of a family to be ostracised for marrying someone, that the others deem unsatisfactory.

[Ankou]

"If you were smart enough you would have realised that the question was 'figuratively speaking'."

i would thank you not to make such personal attacks on my intelligence.