I agree, OP.
By inserting the 'muslim convert' modifier, they have implied a link between her faith and her opinion.
I have several muslim friends and acquaintances. They're all professionals, they all work and none of them claim benefits. Are there Muslims who take the piss? Of course there are. Just like there are people of any (and no) faith group who take the piss.
Well said, SleeplessInWherever
and 5128gap
I've nc for this in case anyone recognises him/me from this.
One of my muslim friends is also a younger man in his 30s. He offered me a lift home from work one Friday when my car was in the garage. I accepted and he said we'd need to make a slight detour first. I said that was fine, of course, as I wasn't in rush and he was doing me a huge favour.
So we stopped at the primary school at the end of the road, he went in and came out with milk cartons and bags of unopened fruit - schools quite often have an excess. Every Friday for the past two years, they had sorted and he had collected excess milk cartons and fruit and dropped it of at a local temporary accommodation housing young homeless people (16-25) including single mothers and their babies/young children.
I was amazed that I didn't know he did this or that the temporary accommodation was even there. He explained that another of our colleagues (another muslim man) had been doing it for years and he'd taken over when this man retired.
In my local city, there are often groups of muslim men out on a Saturday night cheerfully and good natured handing out free bottles of water to drunk etc people and food and water to homeless people.
When the bin strikes happened in Brimingham, a volunteer group of Muslim men organised themselves with trucks etc to do collections so that areas didn’t become overrun with rubbish.
Local mosques open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to offer food and company to people who would otherwise be spending Christmas alone. As well as doing food deliveries to local elderly people and outreach support of homeless people who would otherwise be alone and have nothing.
Those are the Muslims I know and these are the Muslims I see. I don't recognise the hateful rhetoric in any of the people I know or see around me.
Of course there are unpleasant Muslims. But that's just because some people are really unpleasant! There are plenty of really unpleasant white Christian English (whichever part you want to focus on) people too and most of them can be found spewing nonsense on social media...