Is Luton a "no go" town?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....d-Baroness-Warsi.html

Once again no arrests made, I wonder if the same would happen if it was the BNP who had attacked her?

/// After all, it was in Luton in March that a similar group of young Islamic protesters shouted obscenities at members of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment taking part in an Afghan war homecoming parade ///.

/// When a Mecca Bingo Hall opened, its windows were smashed after some Muslims claimed the neon 'Mecca' sign insulted their religion ///

/// Over the past 18 months or so, around 30 non-Muslim homes have been attacked. One white couple in their 80s had bricks hurled through their front window. A West Indian woman in her 70s was watching TV when a metal beer keg crashed through her bay window.///

The culprits have never been caught.

/// Such is the extent of the problem that government ministers are spending large amounts of money in Luton for a project called 'Preventing Violent Extremism'. More than £600,000 has been put into a 'hearts and minds' campaign to try to prevent young Muslims joining the fanatics.///

[Gromit]

We have already discussed this incident here

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question834808.html

[naomi24]

///Over the past 18 months or so, around 30 non-Muslim homes have been attacked.........The culprits have never been caught.///

There may be a problem in Luton, but this clearly suggests the culprits in this instance were Muslim. If they've never been caught, no one knows who they were. This is just sensationalism aimed at causing trouble. Shame on the newspaper.

[anotheoldgit]

Zeuhl

"Methinks you protest too much"

/// I'm going back to work it's more interesting than this.///

You mean you are employable, you do surprise me?

You odious little slimy excuse for a human being.

Regarding your persistent posts in trying to wheedle yourself out of the hole you have dug for yourself, I have only but one answer.

Keeping digging that hole, perhaps some passer by will oblige the human race by pushing you in and replacing the soil.

[Quinlad]

AOG,

On one thread, you seem aghast at the very suggestion of cowardice. The moments later, on this one, you seriously question whether it's safe to go to Luton.

Thank goodness our brave men and women in Afghanistan are made of sterner stuff.

[OrcadianOil]

Get up to date, aog:

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question834808.html

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Nothing at all wrong with re-introducing a subject, it happens all the time.

Or am I only guilty of breaking one of Gromit's Answerbank rules?

[Quinlad]

It does happen all the time. Usually by you.

Isn't it time to ask something about black people?

[anotheoldgit]

Get even more up to date OrcadianOil

Gromit pointed this out in the very first answer.

1hour & 27minutes before you.

[jno]

ah, Quinlad, but would they venture into Luton? I hear it's under complete Taliban control and Bin Laden is living in a disused hangar.

[anotheoldgit]

Only willing to oblige Quinlad

/// A West Indian woman in her 70s was watching TV when a metal beer keg crashed through her bay window ///

Are the police taking any action, against these Muslims?

[Quinlad]

I bet they would if it had been the BNP!!!!1!!!

LOL!

[jno]

The culprits have never been caught, but the victims are in no doubt that they were targeted by a small group of religious extremists who want all non-Muslims out of Bury Park."

I wonder on what evidence they base such absolute certainty, given that nobody seems to know who the attackers were.

[sp1814]

AOG

Think about this for a second...what would Muslims be doing with a beer keg?

[naomi24]

AOG, How you know they're Muslim? They haven't been caught.

[Oneeyedvic]

Yes - Luton is a no go area: http://en.wikipedia.o...n_the_Peace_Day_Riots

///On Peace Day, July 19, 1919,[3] the Town Hall was burnt down during a riot by ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances.[4] The riot started after members of the council arrived to read out the King’s proclamation and many in the crowd expressed their disapproval. Tension boiled over into violence and a number of protesters broke through the police line and forcibly entered the town hall. Shortly after a number of violent clashes took place, with the town hall being stormed by the crowd and eventually set on fire. A number of valuable documents relating to local history were lost, including a Papal Bull, sent by Pope Adrian IV to the vicar of Shefford in the 12th century. During the riot people broke into Farmers Music Shop and dragged pianos into the streets for dancing and singing, including ironically "Keep the home fires burning". The mayor at the time, Henry Impey was smuggled out of Luton never to return.///

What are your thoughts on exservicemen rioting?

[Kromovaracun]

AOG

Just so you know, I've started a notepad document. I'm copy-pasting all the quotes from you I find interesting in it, with links to the threads. I think it might be fun in a few rants' time.

Just a heads up :)