Comments on: What are you?

By: Whipps Cross Lad

Whipps Cross Lad — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:54:15 +0000

The only identity crisis in the UK today is the one manufactured by the race relations industry and their committed cadre of ideological multiculturalists. By indulging those who seek to group themselves according to skin colour, religion and ethnicity; by emphasising superficial differences over tangible similarities; and by tolerating notions of racial supremacy and discriminatory attitudes dressed up as religious dogma, we have encouraged people with no other connection than the national origin of their parents to see themselves as distinct from the rest of society.

The real identity crisis that we should be tackling is the one where ickle girls of Maulvi Bazaari parentage growing up in Stepney are discouraged and even prevented from going out with, getting engaged to and marrying boys whose parents didn’t come from Maulvi Bazaar. Those who claim that these sorts of attitudes should obtain, as BananaBrain did on another thread (I’m sure he’ll correct me ;-]), based on religious prohibitions, are the real hinderers of a shared identity.

If we don’t marry each and have children with a shared genetic inheritance, we grow apart. And so it has been throughout history.

By: Raziq

Raziq — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:29 +0000

In your opinion how should dislocated individuals be dealt with? (apart from taking them to ‘Sufi Sheikhs’)

By: Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:05:13 +0000

Of course we are not extremist nutters so we must be sell outs, how logical.

By: Shikwa

Shikwa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:56 +0000

^ Eh?

By: Uz

Uz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:42:00 +0000

What are you? — A bunch of sellouts!!!!!!

By: Raziq

Raziq — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:18 +0000

Good point. I think they were also successful because a lot of youth were genuinely concerned about their identity. Over the last decade or so much work has been done in communities, mosques and by government initiatives on this issue. Muslims are becoming more comfortable with their identity and they see no contradiction in being British and Muslim. This is one of the reasons why the popularity of Islamist groups is waning.

By: Inspector Gadget

Inspector Gadget — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:17:01 +0000

Possibly – but in the past Islamists have been able to use the issue of identities becoming more complex and multi-faceted to their advantage – by offering a very simplistic identity of a universal Muslim brotherhood that trumps over all other racial, ideological or national identities.

Surely, if identities continue to become more complex (and therefore often more confusing), Islamists will simply find it easier than ever to persuade people to adopt their own simplistic narrative of Muslims vs The Rest?