It's not quite like that.
The problem is more that us here 'in the streets' just hear rumours. A kind of Chinese whisper of what really happened.
So by comparison, the accounts from the police and the local media seem to offer a more balanced and realistic perspective ... ( call me naive ...)
Here is the story in today's news (I have taken out the names of location and individuals):
What exactly is a Community and Diversity Officers, I wonder? :?
I googled our town in the news to find out what the media said.
What worried me was that I also came across the BNP's version of the event - which was very distorted! It didn't even mention that the fighting was between two Pakistani families, thereby giving the impression that it was a racial attack (against white British people, of course!)
That's what worries me!
That's how these things can escalate and turn into nasty inter-racial situations, even in a community where racial differences have never been a problem!!
Peace
yes glo it is a problem,
such fights were very common where i grew up in a coal mining, village and although when i grew up many of friends fathers were miners, they didnt have dark faces when i saw them as they had put in showers by the time i was growing up in the 1980's and 90's.
it is a sickness, culture over what is right and wrong as set out by God in his scripture given to mankind.
in islam we call this jahiliyyah, meaning pre islamic ignorance and unfortunetely there is a lot of it in the muslim community that creeps back in when we are not watching.
peace,
Abu Abdullah
