In the first, Murdoch continues to eat away at community relations and the rest of the media, not to mention the Met, slavishly follow suit, even though it was clearly a welfare issue. The officer had family affected by it and if he couldn’t banish that then he couldn’t have done his job. No need for an inquiry, just a simple statement of fact: a Lebanese wife and a Syrian father worried about potential association is reason enough. This makes the Sun coverage so ridiculous that its slant can be called into question. Funny that the only others who were worried about this ‘making an exception’ were white police officers who crave uniformity, while it may have rung false in the rest of our ears because obviously the prospect of any Briton now holding principles is outrageous.

Adding to Reid’s sterling interventions of late, then Straw went one louder in hurling a hot potato onto the table toploaded with Eastern spice. How nice of him to ‘launch a debate’ about ditching the veil.

This pretty much sums up the deeply confused and damaging messages that the UK gives out to immigrants. Come! Live the multicultural dream! Be yourself without being shot (we are a haven not like those rogue states where you came from). Er hang on, British society has atomisation embedded into its fabric in such a way that ghettoisation is unavoidable, even if you’re 2nd and 3rd-generation Pakistani muslims. In rundown Victorian slums you will naturally become more like your old ethnic self, until problems our policies, particularly foreign policies, create make you all a suspect and in a volte-face we demand secularism from you. Fantastic.

Of course for a govt that aims to rid communities of extremism and foster integration such a symbolic act as removing the veil may seem like a logical move, particularly if you refuse to admit that foreign policy (as well as, er social disintegration) is creating the extremism/separation, and the ‘mad Imams’ are just feeding on it. Thus in so being deeply committed to pursuing the wrong causes and searching for ill effects, unsurprisingly things are not working out for the govt.

Mark Easton’s report on the 10 o’clock BBC News on 5 October about the two stories (and ‘what they say’) not only contained a demented rant about ‘political correctness’ and how the majority of people in this country don’t like it (can they tell me what it is then, please, because the definition seems to alter all the time, depending on who is the target for disdain, vitriol and a rather bizarre form of jealousy – ‘they get treated better then us!’) but again raised the very dangerous question ‘has the British model of multiculturalism worked?’ What’s the solution if you’re answer to that simplified rubbish is ‘no’? Repatriation? Further legislation to spy on people and ethnic minorities in particular? Human rights legislation would certainly have to go.

This report was then followed by a piece about universities being the breeding ground for Muslim extremism and an interview with some faceless white (thank the jesus god) prof from the ‘Brunel University centre for intelligence’. Again, the reporter polluted the coverage with right-wing innuendo that Muslim students, specifically, were increasingly discussing ‘news and politics’. Perish the thought that our supine children would ever be so stupid as to take an interest in the world around them, especially as it is now, officially, a globe.

In the current climate of suspicion, fear and blame shifting from govt to Muslim minority, extremists from every background are being empowered and often rewarded with airtime. There is an obvious feeling among politicians and the media that another terrorist attack is imminent and they are all covering their arses with accusatory speeches and suggestive reports which will quite probably have the effect of motivating bored and listless people to violence against a murderous, hypocritical, imperial and cynical state.

This has, of course, been preceded by years of media and political abuse of asylum seekers, more ballast to the hate the government and media wish to foster among the white majority toward Muslims and to take attention away from the obvious consequences of their oh so noble foreign policy.

So much disingenuous coverage then, you can just sense the whipping up of rhetoric. As this Indy story (Jews join Nazis and co) shows, the demonisation of Asian/Middle East Muslims is so complete that the far-right’s traditional enemy is encouraged to join it in targeting them (Fascists vs Islamofascists – should be good). Of course, this is only something that the white middle/working-class mainstream has pursued for years (witness the attacks on the Windsor dairy). Only deracinated and unfaithed Asians are welcome now, multiculturalism is on our terms.

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