Sorry haven't read the rest of this thread, and I usually steer well away from GD to avoid getting sucked in, but the events of today have made me so ****ing mad I just had to post.
I'm of Indian origin, my parents are mildly Hindu (occasionally go to the temple for festivals and stuff that's about it). My parents came over here in the 70's, my dad was actually invited over by the Royal College of Physicians or something because he's such a damn good Doctor. He's worked his arse off every day of his life here, paid all his taxes, undertook all his duties as a citizen of the UK etc. etc. and is generally a nice guy.
I myself am an aetheist and consider myself to be British through and through, was born in Aberdeen and spent all my life living here (and if you don't agree that brown can be British you can sod off). I consider myself to be very well integrated into general British society; the majority of my friends are white, but I am open to all different cultures and practices as long as they don't impinge on the rights and freedoms of others (gays, nudists, religious people, trannies, whatever floats your boat, i don't care).
I find it both extremely infuriating and distressing that a small minority of bloody idiotic asians
born and bred in THIS COUNTRY can ruin this damn good society that we have all built. What they're planning on doing is blatantly psychotic and murderous, and they now increase already existing racial tensions in our country. I find it so damn frustrating that because of morons like these, an increased stigma is now attached to me, just because I have the same colour skin.
Don't get me wrong here, I strongly believe racial profiling is a NECESSITY to combat this terrorist cancer (the most apt word to describe it imo), but I am infuriated by the fact that this net includes me, and no doubt thousands of other British Asians that feel the same way. All of the arrests were of ISLAMIC individuals, from urban LOWER-MIDDLE class communities. I don't fall into either of those categories! Yet because of being brown, many people, either through ignorance or fear will now look at me standing in an airport with a rucksack and think "Does he have a bomb in there, omg I'm scared". How annoying
Sorry I'm so mad now I can't come up with coherent sentences any more, but just had to get that out of my system!
Suman