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To think these riots are about anti-muslim feeling more than immigration....

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SaltAndVinegar2 · 08/08/2024 00:08

...and to wonder what the rioters actually think the solution is?

I mean there are plenty of Christian immigrants and no-one is attacking churches. Inner city churches are often mostly made up of ethnic minority and immigrant people

Just watched Ed Balls interview with Zarah Sultana.
ZS: "it's important to call out these riots for being islamophobic because mosques and muslims are being targetted"
EB: "do you agree we need to control immigration"
followed by constant interruption and not allowing her to actually say anything. He came across terribly. There have been 8000 complaints about this interview!

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ed-balls-gmb-zarah-sultana-riots-b2591311.html

These rioters want to get rid of muslims whether British or immigrant - that is the unpalatable truth. It's not about immigrants in general at all, and only partly about the ones in the hotels. It's scarily reminiscent of what I've read about the early days of the 1930s in germany before Hitler came to power.

GMB viewers criticise Ed Balls for ‘callous’ Zarah Sultana interview

Balls has been branded ‘incredibly patronising’ for his ‘reckless’ interview method

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ed-balls-gmb-zarah-sultana-riots-b2591311.html

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 08/08/2024 00:22

No, because if there were no Muslims, it would be Jewish people, then British born black/brown people , then people with foreign accents, then trans people, then gay people, then disabled people.... the list goes on and on because they are bigots.

I can have a conversation with someone who has a thing about a certain group, but when there's more than one grievance, then I'm out.