ascan wrote:
Yupa wrote:
...as long as you're not one of those people who keeps parroting the BNP's unofficial party slogan "HURRR DURRR ENGLAND IS BCOMING A MUSLIM COUNTRY HURRRR."
Get a flight over here and visit Bradford. You'll see just what the BNP are talking about...
I am sick of hearing this. As an ex pat I often talk to folks about the UK. Islamic Bradford keeps coming up. Well here are the facts
'in 2006, it was estimated that 74.9% of the city's population was White (72.2% White British, 0.7% White Irish and 2.1% as Other White), 2.9% Mixed Race, 20.5% Asian or Asian British, 1.6% Black and 0.6% from other races. 16.8% of the population are of South Asian origin, representing the second highest proportion in England and Wales outside London, in terms of both population (behind Birmingham) and percentage (behind Blackburn with Darwen). Nearly half of all Asians living in Yorkshire and the Humber live in Bradford, with one district, Frizinghall, having the highest concentration of Pakistanis in England and Wales, making up 73% of the local population.[10] Accordingly, the city has a large Islamic population, with 16.08% of the population identifying themselves as Muslim in the 2001 census.[30] 60.14% were Christians, 1.02% Sikhs, 0.95% Hindus and 13.3% were identified as having no religion. The percentage of Jews, Buddhists and those following other religions each amounted to fewer than 0.5% of the city's population.'
So ONE area Frizinghall has a majority population of Pakistani's. This hardly equates to the claim that Muslims have taken over Bradford let alone the country
Bradford is a medium sized city, in the north of England with bugger all employment.
It is now becoming the focus for the ignorant xenophobic and racist rantings of white supremacists. Using the stats outlined above it would be equally true to lament how 'Bradford once a good Christian town is being overrun by atheists'
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