The young men who are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq are there because mainly the USA supported by the UK Government decided, for reasons not totally apparent as of yet, to invade those countries. In doing so they seemed to fail to comprehend that in doing so they were likely to antagonise certain groups who, correctly of otherwise, would believe the action was specifically against them. When Germany invaded France the French not unreasonably tried to kill Germans.
I am constantly surprised that instead of criticisingly the people who commit atrocities, members of this multicultural forum in particular, put them into 'imaginary' ethnic groups. I live in Spain, I am thankfully aware that I am not grouped as being 'one of those bloody Brits who come over here to rape and kill our girls.' Tony King (a Brit) was condemned not for being British when he was convicted of murdering two Spanish girls, but for being a murderer.
I hope our spouses are not condemned as being 'bloody foreigners who come over to sponge off us' rather than Filipinos who are married to Brits, nor the Brits married to Filipinos living in the Philippines as 'those B.........ds who are taking advantage of our women' even though some fall within that descriptivism.
I have every contempt for anyone who breaks the law. That they maybe from an ethnic or religious group, or look different from us, may be disabled, or not speak English etc. does not put them into a category which should be discriminated against.
One does not have to racist to love their country and to support it.
Human nature will not be changed by laws, directives and soppy wishful thinking.
Nor by being anti anything !
