Is Britain A Fair And Equal Society?

[Khandro]

A few facts on here may make you wonder;

[THECORBYLOON]

A report commissioned in 2016 for a House of Commons committee shows 12.8% of Muslims are unemployed. Whilst that is more than twice the rate in the general population, it's nowhere near the figures quoted in the video.

[THECORBYLOON]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslims-more-likely-to-be-unemployed-than-any-other-social-group-in-the-uk-mps-warn-a7185451.html

[sp1814]

Don't suppose you could summarise?

Sixteen minutes is a bit of a chunk.

[Khandro]

Corbyloon; I really question those figures which are bad enough, but you only have to walk around the streets of many towns in the daytime to see how many muslim men of employable age are not working.

[sp1814]

Also - what is the source of this? I'm not doubting your link, but really...YouTube like Twitter is the Wild West...anyone can post on there. Is this from a news site? A media stream? A political party? What are we commenting on?

Would be useful to get some perspective.

[Zacs-Master]

Newsflash. Nowhere in the world has a fair and equal society. What's your point?

[Mamyalynne]

Comes from this chap - Utility bills paid for?

That old chestnut.............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Collett

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry, I didn't answer your question - it's fairer and more equal than some but not as fair and equal as others.

[woofgang]

oh he sounds like a LOVELY person and soooo believable

[KARL]

No it isn't, and that's leaving all Muslims out of the discussion.

[THECORBYLOON]

"you only have to walk around the streets of many towns in the daytime to see how many muslim men of employable age are not working."

A how do you know they're Muslims?

B ever heard of night-shifts?

[fiction-factory]

A lot of taxi shifts are done in the evening, and the icecream vans only go out on sunny days. And I know/see Muslims who manage to fit in daytime trips to the mosque (eg my doctor) aroundtheir work.
But I think it's better to use official statistics than make assumptions based on what we think we see in our neighbourhood

[naomi24]

fiction-factory, I don't 'think' I'm seeing a lot of Muslim men out and about during daylight hours. I am seeing a lot of Muslim men out and about during daylight hours. All I can say is there must be an awful lot of night taxi drivers and ice cream vans around the London boroughs of Waltham Forest, Newham, and Tower Hamlets.

[Khandro]

// how do you know they're Muslims? //
By a combination of beards, skull-caps (taqiyahs) and the long 'night shirts' as favoured by Anjem Choudary and his lay-about followers (all on benefits).

Have you ever seen anyone driving a taxi, or 'working night shifts' or doing any job dressed like that? and yet in many towns, like Bradford, and Luton for example, it seems to be the predominant male attire.

[cassa333]

It is as fair as it is.

The question is why is there A higher proportion of unemployed young Muslim men?

Is it because no one will employ them? Or they have unrealistic expectations of what they will accept as employment? Or they live in an area of higher unemployment? Or because they (like a lot of people) don't make the effort to travel for a job?

[Khandro]

cassa; //The question is why is there A higher proportion of unemployed young Muslim men?///

You may not have listened to the answers to your question given in the video. Have you?

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, I would rather believe the results from a properly commissioned report than those from one or two folk based on what they seen when out and about.

[naomi24]

THECORBYLOON, According to your post at 22:27 Wed, Muslim unemployment is more than twice the rate of that of the rest of the population - and that is from a properly commissioned report.

[ToraToraTora]

No, there is no such thing.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, Khandro doesn't believe the figures in the report.