Wording
Sometimes people try to do the right thing and their very effort to do the right thing causes them to do just the wrong thing they meant to avoid. Sometimes that’s sad, other times it’s funny. Sometimes it’s part funny part irritating.
A Bradford man attacked and threatened after his family converted from Islam to Christianity was told by police to “stop being a crusader”…The No Place To Call Home report, by Ziya Meral, states apostates are “subject to gross and wide-ranging human rights abuses.”…The report, launched today, describes how the Pakistani community in Bradford reacted to the family’s conversion by shouting abuse and death threats, vandalising their house and car, attacking Mr Hussein and following his wife.
Really?! The entire Pakistani community in Bradford shouted abuse and death threats and followed Ms Hussein – that must have been something to see.
No, of course that’s not what happened, and it’s not what the Bradford Telegraph meant to say, but it was so busy trying not to offend anyone by referring to people without the c word that it did in fact, idiotically, say that. Block thinking taken to its logical conclusion – if some ten or twenty Pakistanis do something then that thing was done by ‘the Pakistani community.’ So much for precision, clarity, accuracy, and above all, fairness. Any Bradford ‘members of the Pakistani community’ who don’t approve of such behavior must be feeling very chuffed.
“We are satisfied we are doing everything that we can in respect of this matter.”
So says the British coppers to the (dreadfully frightened) family of five – after telling it to move house.
Take note, we, we, we is thrice times used in the sentence above which I believe is meant to give consolation to them, them, them – the family.
“Typical police behaviour, I’m afraid.”
Yeah, Tingey. Agreed.
One would think that Bradford of all places in Britain would have highly trained police personnel to deal with circumstances of this ghastly ilk.
Pervasive human rights abuses, which occur in society is a sad denunciation indeed.
Moreover, not to mention it being another phenomenon when it stirs under the very noses of the Police!
In addition, that those abuses by the very officialdom, which is by government in place to help society, can be by it supplemented – is downright contemptible
West Yorkshire constabulary has ostensibly ignored the righteous plea of a harassed citizen. I deem therefore that the constable (or whomever it was in the force) that made the frivolous/facetious remark to Nissar Hussein “stop being a crusader” should be held accountable for gross misconduct.
Bradford had the second largest population of Asians of any UK city, with approximately 68,000 Pakistanis. (Wiki)
I so agree O.B and also I think G.T has hit the nail on the head, If this was my family I would arange my own protection because the cops wont do anything for them untill after they have been atacked in case it offends moslems.