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Sky News presenter clashes with Nigel Farage on British Muslims: ‘Can you imagine how offensive that is?’
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5/26/2024
'Can you imagine how offensive that is?': Sky News presenter clashes with Nigel Farage on British MuslimsSource: Sky News
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The sheer numbers that were coming in last week, you really have to ask yourself some
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questions.
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Well, is this the thrust of the reform campaign that actually immigration means that our values
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are threatened and particularly we are unhappy about Muslims?
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Because that is a pretty incendiary proposition.
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We have never before seen anything like this.
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You think about West Indian immigration into Britain, post World War II.
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I think of very little else.
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West Indian immigration into Britain post World War II.
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There were a lot of shared things there, shared history, shared culture, shared religion in
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many cases.
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Most families that came could say one of their family had served with British forces in World
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War I, World War II, love of cricket, the list goes on, but there were commonalities.
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And as you know with your previous job, the key to immigration is integration.
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If you get integration, it works.
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What we have done is, and this works on several levels, what we have done...
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I'm going to stop you there and I'm going to say two things.
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Well, here's the difference.
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No, no, I'm going to tell you something about the difference.
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First of all, you're right, I come from that stock.
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But let us remember that my stock, my ancestors, for the best part of 700 or 800 years, were
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Muslims until they were forcibly converted to Christians by slave owners.
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So when you talk about Muslims as hostile to British values, I've got to say, I don't
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really...
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Let me finish what I'm going to say.
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Hang on.
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I don't really see how you arrive at that conclusion.
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And secondly, trying to say to me, you know, actually you guys are not really like these
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other guys.
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I mean, you and I have known each other a long time.
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Can you imagine how offensive that is to British Muslims?
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Let me ask you to put yourself in the shoes of a British Muslim and can you imagine how
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offensive that feels?
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How many people in your community fail to speak English?
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How many people?
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From the West Indian community don't speak English.
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We all speak English.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I can take you.
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I can take you to streets in Oldham where virtually no one speaks English.
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I've been there too.
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But honestly, come on.
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The point I'm making is this.
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I am not here to attack the religion of Islam, but I am here.
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Well, you've just been doing it for three minutes.
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No, I haven't.
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I'm telling you the alarming figures that have been coming out of these recent polls,
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particularly in the wake of what has happened on October the 7th and in Gaza.
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And we have a real, real problem here.
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