Re: In America - vulnerability of Muslims
My God, you don't expect anyone to read all that do you?
It's messed up for Muslim/Brown ppl in the West now, in America it started with 9/11, but that didn't affect us much and white ppl even use to joke about it whereas we felt the need to be apologetic so we said it was sick to joke about stuff like that! But with 7/7 everything changed, they look at us suspiciously now, bus drivers sometimes don't stop for us, Paki bussinesses (Taxi/Cab, grocery-store etc.) don't get as much bussiness. Before 7/7 this country was good to us, Pakis never thought about moving "back home" seriously, back then only the young and the BNP gave us racist taunts, now even the educated middle/upper class loath us and look at us suspiciously. We don't all hate the West (some of us Muslims are the West) and we don't want to blow anyone up but they're standoffish, it'd be nice to loosen up and have a laugh with them, I'd love to be able to interact with ppl as a human but I can't because I know they look at me as a Paki (one of the Mozlems) and even when they don't mention anything I can sense the awkwardness, I've decided it's just easier to socialise with those in the same boat (Pakis, Turks, Arabs etc.), meeting white ppl for a shag is where my non-professional interaction with them ends, which is a shame because when we were growing up my closest friends were white (next door's kids' who rented our spare house out), or our other neighbour who had like 10 dogs and it was so cool taking them all out for walks togther, there was also my grandma's friend who was like a granny to us after my grandparents moved back to Pak.. but now this country is a completely different place for us, there is widening gap between the communities.
I read it.
Anyways, ya 9/11, it was Arabs who were the terrorists. But after 7/7, Pakistanis have joined Arabs.
Again, it was the British Pakistanis who did the deed.
Like I have always said, British Pakistanis have shamed Pakistanis everywhere