How much anti-muslim / anti-immigrant sentiment is there where you live?

[QUOTE]. I myself would class myself as agnostic, maybe even athiest, but I would never ever criticise someone else for believing in what they believe in. Seriously, if they have the faith to believe in something that they cannot be proven, then well done them! I wish I had their faith, but  I don't.



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I really can't see why believing something rediculous, even to the extend of being blind to all the evidence that contradicts your believes, is something good, and something to have respect for.

And why would you wish you had their faith? If I believed in a god, especially that horrible judeo/christian/islamic god, i'd be scared to death the whole damn day.

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Anti-immigrant/ racist discrimination is a hot topic in India the last couple of days owing to the attacks on Indian students in Australia over last month.

* In one attack, two Indian students were each hit on the head with a bat at Tottenham station in March. The youths who attacked them taunted them racially.
* Two people gatecrashed a party and started thrashing the students. 4 students, all Indian , were singled out for the assault.One of the four was attacked with a screwdriver, which pierced his head.
* In a separate incident in Melbourne earlier this month, another Indian student was thrashed on a train by a group of men.

All this and more in a short interval of 1-2 weeks, and all in Melbourne if I'm not mistaken. The Authorities (Australian as well as Indian) are terming these as being possibly revenge attackes, robbery attempts, etc. However all the victims have mentioned that they were racially abused during the attacks.I also find it strange that robbers would attack students, who work part time, to pay for their studies. And the video clip of the train attack leaves no doubt that it is was anything other than a racist attack.

The indian papers and TV news channels have been covering the attacks in great detail.They also noted that the Aussie media has downplayed it as a non-issue. I'm interested to know if it was given coverage in any other country? Especially those with a sizeable immigrant/ Inidan population like the UK?

I don't want a lot of telly, I didn't even realise there was anti-Indian stuff going down in my own country... fuck!
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[/QUOTE]I dunno.  If it were just casual jibes about racial stereotypes I'd just laugh it off but when it turns to physical violence against people who probably contribute more to the nation than those people who are perpetrating the violence .... that's when I get pissy.[/QUOTE]

from CNN:
[QUOTE]WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Shortly before President Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.
That view compares with 46 percent of the people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey who say they have an unfavorable opinion of Muslim countries. That's up 5 percentage points from 2002, when 41 percent indicated that they had an unfavorable view.

Meanwhile, three in 10 say they have a neutral opinion of Muslim countries.

The poll also suggests that most Americans suspect people in Muslim countries don't think highly of the United States. Nearly eight in 10 questioned say people in Muslim countries have a unfavorable opinion of the United States, with 14 percent saying Muslims hold a favorable view.

But the poll indicates Americans seem to be split on whether such negative opinions by Muslims matter. Fifty-three percent of those questioned say they think Muslim views of the United States matter greatly or moderately, with 47 percent saying that Muslim opinions of the United States don't matter very much or at all.
At a town hall in Turkey earlier this year, the president declared that "the United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam."

Many Americans seem to agree with the president: Sixty-two percent of those surveyed say they don't think the United States is at war with the Muslim world, with 36 percent indicating that the country is at war with Muslim countries. Those numbers have remained stable since CNN's 2002 poll.
But the poll suggests that six out of 10 think that the Muslim world considers itself at war with the United States.

"The feeling seems to be mutual. We distrust Muslims. They distrust Americans. Views of Americans have not changed very much over the past seven years. There are some indications that Muslims' views of Americans have improved a bit since Barack Obama took office, but they are still not positive," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst.

The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted May 14-17, with 1,010 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. [/QUOTE]

In the [b]ninth such attack on Indians in the last one month[/b], a nursing student at Chisholm Institute in Dandenong in Melbourne's east was slashed with box-cutter knife by one of the five men who confronted him in a car park on Tuesday.

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Hi, ParisNair!

I hope you're doing fine.

This is sad news. Nine of such attacks in one months is really horrible. What do you think has been the motivation for all this? Has the attacker been arrested?

That's sad. Violence is sad and render things meaningless. :-(

Take care!

Yara

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Hi, ParisNair!

I hope you're doing fine.

This is sad news. Nine of such attacks in one months is really horrible. What do you think has been the motivation for all this? Has the attacker been arrested?

That's sad. Violence is sad and render things meaningless. :-(

Take care!

Yara
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Hello Yara!
I'm doing great, and I hope you're even better :-)

Incidentally, the papers yesterday reported of a tenth attack- this time by a group consisting of females as well-on an Indian this month on an Indian in Melbourne.

Motivation for all this? I now think the attackers are mainly thugs out to steal money from unarmed and helpless foreigners. These are probably regular incidents out there, and came to the attention of India journalists only now. Think about it - 10 racist attacks in a month does sound outrageous. But 10 burglary attempts in a month in big city like Melbourne? not such a big deal I think.

It is more likely that these guys have anti-foreigner or anti-Indian sentiments too, even if money is the main motivation. An ex-colleague of mine studied hotel Management in Australia and also had the privilege to visit many countries in Europe and he is currently in the US. He did tell me once that he sensed "racism was in the air" more in Autralia compared to Europe/N.America. In the big cities of those countries, it hardly made a difference that his skin was brown. But in even in the biggest cities of Australia, he felt people made him feel unwanted.