3 Brit Pakistanis from B'ham arrested for terror plot

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Re: 3 Brit Pakistanis from B’ham arrested for terror plot

@ehsan

Partly true that Pakistanis in America have done better than ones in UK. We have both extremes here. While there is a very active extremist lobby here, UK has a lot of Pakistanis representing them in the parliament in all three parties including a Pakistani who until recently was the co -chairwoman of the conservative party and member of the cabinet. Under Blair there were at least two ministers of Pakistani origin and even now in the shadow cabinet the justice minster portfolio is held by a Pakistani. There are a number of Pakistanis in house of Lords as well. I dont see any Pakistan in American cabinet yet. Are there any in the congress?

Generalizations are never good.

I was talking in general, not pointing to specific cases, because when we talk about communities, then you have to speak of GENERAL trends among that community. If I had said that ALL Pakistanis in England are criminals and extremists, then I would be faulted. Judging INDIVIDUALS according to a generalization about their community would obviously be wrong.

One reason that Pakistanis havent become more prominent in politics in the US is because Pakistanis are still a relative minority, even among minorities. Because they are generally first generation. And because Muslims as a group do not vote as a single bloc… Also, many Pakistani at present are concentrated in particular professions. So you have many people in construction, driving Taxis, as doctors and IT, and dont often see people choosing other professions. These profession, some of them are easy for an immigrant to get into, taxi for example. And we all know how much Desis love the medical field.

Just like in the UK we have had bad apples among American Pakistanis, however as a general group, not talking about specifics, Pakistanis have done quite well for themselves.

I suppose you guys have many successful individual cases, while we have done well as a community but haven’t produced exceptional individual cases as yet.