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Monday, September 26, 2011
It's fill the blanks time as we look at the story of St Bedes Catholic Grammar School in Heaton, Bradford, which is seemingly facing open warfare between pupils of different religions.
It's a story which has utterly escaped mainstream coverage, and no wonder why when we fill in a few gaps.
Councillor Imdad Hussain (Labour) has warned that conflict between two faiths there must be stopped before it escalates into a full scale gang war. Surely a 'faith war' would be a more appropriate term since it is apparently conflict between two faiths, we ought to call it as it is.
There appear to have been numerous incidents, including a particularly shocking one in which vehicles and school buses were set upon by "Asian" pupils, who threw bricks and caused £600 worth of damage. Terrified pupils ran for safety.
Note the word "Asian", that seems to be a regular catch-all to avoid saying the religion whose name we dare not speak in any negative context these days.
Still, benefit of the doubt, at least until we learn that Councillor Hussain is trying to organise a parent and pupil forum with the intention of "bringing the two faiths together".
Being a Catholic school, a fair assumption may well be that one of the faiths involved is Catholic.
The other? Well, it's "Asian" - the report in the local news doesn't tell us. However, we can make a fair guess, especially given Bradfords huge Muslim population.
We'll happily post an apology and correction if wrong, and if we are we'll buy a lottery ticket at the same time, the odds of us being wrong are comparable to those of winning the jackpot no doubt.
This is our harmonious Britain, a picture postcard of non existent integration where one faith attacks the children of another.
Yet, we seemingly do little. Had the Catholics headed down to the local "Asian" school to pelt them with bricks we would, no doubt about that, but when roles are reversed we just appeal for calm and dialogue, and we seemingly dare not say hate crime or prejudice.
Many of our schools and our streets are a powderkeg waiting to explode, the inevitable result of a naive political ethos which insisted that just by throwing hugely divergent people together some kind of almost mystical harmony and integration would result.
It hasn't, it was never going to, and Britain will pay a terrible price. We haven't seen anything yet, it's going to get a lot worse.
Bradford Telegraph and Argus Story - Here
Labels: Bradford, enrichment, multiculturalism
