Ok, Hi everyone, My name is Mog or Mark, whatever you want to call me.
I am Canadian citizen and currently living in the UK, as my friend Blazin pointed out in his recent post.
I will correct a few things in Blazins last post in a few minutes (or lines, just depends how you see yourself wasting your time reading this post). But first let me tell you a bit about myself.
I am from Saskatchewan Regina and currently live in the very upper corner of North-East Derbyshire, and because of this it isn't even a 5 minute walk into either Nottinghamshire or Yorkshire, I am located not too far off from Sheffield (The Heart and Driving force of England). Mainly because of the steel industry.
Oh and this is for the prat earlier who said something along the lines of
The South is the economic heart of the UK, not just England.....Scotland will be stuffed without our taxes. Although there are far too many chavs and.....dare I say it....Poles here.
Very true, all built with "southern" money.
Daz my friend, I think you may have been in the sun a little too long, or if indeed you are from the UK, and by the looks of the time you spend on these online forums, probably not out of the house and in the sun enough, and you can't blame terrorists for that.
Everything that Britain is today was formed and shaped by the areas that I live in, none of the money came from the South, all the Money came from the wealthy estate (land owners) owners from mainly around here in Derbyshire (The North), let me just throw an example or two your way, Chatsworth Estate, Staveley Estate.
You name it, and it was the North who made it, yet it was a Southerner called Maggie who destroyed it all, and I think you know who I mean.
We had Sheffield Stainless Steel, it was world known for its quality in steel and iron, especially during the steam era. Also Cotton Mills down South and up North were all funded by estate owners around here. Coal was also a huge export from the North, The Northerners have always grinded their fingers to the Bone just to keep the southerners happy, its only the FAR Southerners like the Wurzels & Piskys (and no I didn't spell that wrong) in Cornwall and Devon who also work their fingers to the bone, and I have a great deal of respect for those people.
Anyways, it seems I have gone off on a bit of a tangent. So lets get back to the topic at hand.
If you want crime, the crime is North, to somebodys earlier post, I completeley agree, Bradford is almost all Muslim community now, but even that doesn't compare to the community in Nottingham, Nottingham has multiple shootings everyday and is by far the most crime filled city in the whole of the UK, and has the highest Gun-Crime statistics for the whole of Europe.
The only real issue with the problem of Racial discrimination in the UK is the Government.
The government is far too over the top now with political correctness, in a recent survey UK came out as being one of the most politicaly correct Countries in Europe. And no wonder with the government making us have to stop saying Black boards and to now call them Chalk Baords, white boards to marker boards, Postman Pat to Postal Worker Pat. And whats worst is age old nurserey rhymes like Baa Baa Black Sheep being banned from being sung in primary and play schools because some snotty nosed prick from Oxford who never has to work ever because his daddy will pay for him no matter what he chooses to do, decided that the rhyme was offensive to Black People, no sorry wait, thats wrong of me, whats the correct term, coloured people, nope, Oh I know, from Origin of Africa. Whatever ROFL.
I have coloured friends, none of them could give a rats arse about calling a black board a black board, because you know WHY, I will tell you WHY, The Board is Fricken BLACK, thats why. We are not calling it a black baord to take the piss out of black people. We are calling it a Black Board because its Black. I certainly aint gonna go around calling it an African American board for example am I.
Wow this post is getting long real fast.......... lol.
Anyways to correct my friend as I said i would.
He travelled up here on the Midland Mainline not the "Middleland Line"
The rough are is called Clowne, not "Clown" although the majority of the people there do act like they are from a circus, not to mention the fact that Clowne has more prostitutes per square mile than anywhere else in England, lol.
But to be honest Blazin, from memory, you didn't do bad at all
Oh and to the guy who said that his accent seemed to be the only recogniseable accent (think it was you again Daz). I can only assume that your accent was the only one they could choose from, simply because you was the only brit there, or the fact that there was other brits there, but they were mutes, or the people who were listening were infact deaf and could only guess your accent by looking at your clothes.
Lets do this in a nice way to sum it all up
Conclusion
Do I think it was wrong of the family to decide in their heads that they wanted the two Muslims off the plane, no, absoloutly not. In todays society people should be more cautious, even most Muslims understand the fact that they are going to be stared at by everyone just because they wear different clothes and speak differently. Of course they speak differently, they speak another language and come from a different country and follow different laws and religions. But all-in-all we know that the person we look at most likeley hasn't done anything and is probably not connected in anyway to any terrorist groups, but we are still cautious because its basic Human Psychology, its one of the first things you learn in Psychology, every human in the whole world has this, its called the "Fight or Flight" instinct, you either fight, or you run and hide. It seems that the family on the plane saw the two "Shifty" looking muslims, they got nervous, and then the age old instinct of "Fight or Flight" kicked in, and they obviously decided to Fight and have them kicked off. And in doing that the parenting instict protected their child.
Every human has this, and you don't know until it happens to you, so please don't judge either the Muslims reason for wearing leather coats and looking at their watches, and don't judge the protective parents who wrongly acknowledged the Muslims as being dangerous.
Oh and Daz, try holding in some of your attitudes towards foreighners a bit better, bite your tongue a bit sometimes. I am also a Polish Citizen amongst a wide variety of other citizenships I own, and let me tell you that Polish people are very friendly, and also bloody hard workers and most of them are down to earth and bloody genuine lot.
I apologise if this post is stupidly long, and i will most likeley come back and edit it at some point.
Mog.