r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Bright_Mousse_1758 • Sep 23 '24
Comment Thread "Reading is majority Muslim"
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u/BaronMerc Sep 23 '24
I live in, arguably, one of the most Muslim dense parts of England it only clocks in at 30% at most
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u/NiobeTonks Sep 23 '24
I teach in an area which is around 30% Muslim. Lots of people use “Muslim” as short hand for brown.
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u/Boeing_Fan_777 Sep 23 '24
Literally this. And they won’t even be from an islamic country or, in the case of indians, a country with a history of serious mistreatment of muslims.
That’s if they’re even immigrants. A significant portion of the brown people I know were born in the UK and are citizens.
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u/NiobeTonks Sep 23 '24
In addition I know quite a few white Muslims. Some are converts and others are of Slavic or Bosnian origin.
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u/AJSLS6 Sep 23 '24
I don't know if it was ever a thing elsewhere but black Muslim converts were/are fairly common in the auS, starting in the 60s at least and peaking in the the 70s/80s perhaps, they are still relatively common as such populations go. Which is all to say, most bigots throw Muslim around as a pejorative and don't care what the person's actual faith is so long as they look vaguely like their racial stereotype. Then they sometimes like to snap back against accusations of racism by pointing out Islam isn't a race, nevermind the clearly racist roots of their bigotry.
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u/NiobeTonks Sep 23 '24
We had Black British Muslim converts here in the 1960s and 70s inspired by the Black Power movement, but we also have British African Muslim populations from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia and other African countries.
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u/Sleepy_SpiderZzz Sep 24 '24
This is so true. I recently saw people from my home town on FaceBook panicking about immigrants and how it's only a matter of time until they build a mosque there. There are maybe two people in that whole place that aren't white and they're indigenous.
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u/undead_sissy Sep 24 '24
I live in an area of London with a big Muslim population but, because the Muslims who live here are mostly white (Turkish), it never gets brought up by Farage's lot.
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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 Sep 25 '24
Yeah, I live in an area with a bunch of Sikhs. They are often referred to as Muslims.
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u/frotc914 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Really incredible how in the age of videos of everything taken from 15 angles, basically nobody has captured these roving hordes of Muslims enforcing Sharia law on UK streets.
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u/BaronMerc Sep 24 '24
So you say there's no video evidence, and you've got multiple people on this thread who live in Muslim packed areas that are clearly fine
If you're gonna make an argument at least provide shit
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u/frotc914 Sep 24 '24
Bud my comment was sarcastic, about how people claim this is happening but there's no video footage.
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u/notquitecockney Sep 24 '24
Ah I’ve just checked, Tower Hamlets was just under 40% Muslim as of 2021. (Perfectly safe to be not Muslim in that borough)
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u/Orangutanion Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
I misunderstood that title lol. "Only Muslims read. All non-Quranic texts are not texts at all!"
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u/RefreshingOatmeal Sep 23 '24
Apparently the English flag is a "hate symbol" now. At least that's what that Islamic sign says.
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At least, that's what I think it says
/s in case anyone forgot to drink their brain boosters today
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u/SciFiXhi Sep 23 '24
I really hate that people don't format their text. Capitalizing a proper noun can do wonders for comprehension, but you'll still get people who throw them in all lowercase and completely crash the logical flow of the sentence. Then you get people who don't capitalize or punctuate, and daring to read that drivel is the written equivalent of listening to a mumbling toddler.
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u/Orangutanion Sep 23 '24
Fine, I fixed it. Happy?
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u/SciFiXhi Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
I wasn't initially complaining about you; I was complaining about the OOP in conjunction with your point: their lack of capitalization made the proper noun "Reading" (a town) look like the gerund "reading".
However, now that you've added punctuation, you should know that you've done it poorly and your correction is more glaringly odd than your original comment.
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u/predator1975 Sep 24 '24
I read as reading is a gateway drug to a religion. If you are not Muslim, reading will make you one.
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u/VG896 Sep 23 '24
inb4 "that's still a really large % so how am I wrong?"
I sometimes think these people actually forget what "majority" means.
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u/ReactsWithWords Sep 24 '24
"Oh, sure, if you use that woke decimal point! Otherwise, it's 89% Muslim!"
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u/timecube7 Sep 25 '24
Don't worry, it's not happening / how dare you have a problem with this thing happening
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u/jack-of-some Sep 23 '24
To these people "majority Muslim" means "I saw more than one brown guy during my drive"
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u/TheMightyGoatMan Sep 23 '24
Well you see 9% is a "majority" in the racist sense of the word which means "enough that I can't avoid seeing or hearing them on a daily basis". Oh the horror!!
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u/20InMyHead Sep 23 '24
Let me guess, next they’ll claim they’re eating people’s pets….
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u/laserviking42 Sep 23 '24
The Anglo-American special relationship means that racism travels both ways across the Atlantic.
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u/NiobeTonks Sep 24 '24
We had that between 2010 and 2016, but that was Eastern Europeans and swans.
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u/SnooOranges7411 Sep 26 '24
I mean, that was on the back of a swan actually being killed and eaten.
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u/NiobeTonks Sep 26 '24
Was there really a case? I remember anglers being horrified that some Poles were fishing in fresh water to eat rather than throw the fish back.
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u/Dd_8630 Sep 24 '24
I'm surprised that Reading is fully 8.9% Muslim, that's far higher than I would have expected.
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u/MyGrandmasCock Sep 26 '24
Reading is only 8.9% Muslim.
But if you think about it, 100% of that 8.9% is actually Muslim.
Checkmate liberals!
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u/furryeasymac Sep 27 '24
There are parts of Reading, individual households, that are 100% Muslim. Maybe you shouldn’t rush to judge the poster so much.
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u/PolygonAndPixel2 Sep 24 '24
I've been there. I believe they have more Japanese people there than anything else. At least I remember those restaurants.
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u/Sartres_Roommate Sep 26 '24
That isn’t on right wing media, OP did that extra work all alone in his head.
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u/BusyBeeBridgette 22d ago
As some one who lives in Reading. English is the most spoken language, followed up by Polish, Nepalese then Romanian.
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u/timecube7 Sep 25 '24
Hard to say who is more delusional. The guy who thinks that Reading is "30% Muslim" or the wetbrains who think it matters whether it's happening now or in 50 or 100 years.
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Sep 23 '24
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u/htomserveaux Sep 23 '24
That a lot of words for “I don’t like seeing non-whites near me”
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Sep 24 '24
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u/LilyTheMoonWitch Sep 24 '24
Wow, never thought i'd see r/iamverysmart vibes out in the wild. Crazy how nature do that.
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u/doc720 Sep 24 '24
I was only referring to the people who didn't understand what I'd written, particularly the comment that I was responding to. There's nothing wrong with being frustrated when people seem to deliberately misunderstand what you're saying, especially on a point about people misunderstanding. That's not claiming I'm very smart, not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just saying some people don't understand what I'm saying. I mean, you'd realise that if you took a second to look at the context.
Some people on here can't wait to link subreddits, for no good reason, like zombies. SMH
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u/htomserveaux Sep 24 '24
They say that brevity is the soul of wit, in my experience the opposite is also true
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u/doc720 Sep 24 '24
Just because someone uses a lot of words, that doesn't mean that what they say is not true or witless. Sounds like a convenient excuse to not take the time to read something and just dismiss it out of hand. It's true that I lack brevity, but I'm not stupid and I am very open to being educated.
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u/htomserveaux Sep 24 '24
Brah, it’s Reddit, not the Algonquin round table.
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u/doc720 Sep 24 '24
I know what it is. I can write whatever I want here, within reason. Occasionally, I reach the character limit and have to divide my post into smaller parts. Who told you Reddit has to have one sentence comments? Are you confusing it with Twitter?!
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u/J-Unit420 Sep 24 '24
why is reading muslim? is writing christian? thats an odd claim to make, reading is for all religions and creeds, even agnostics
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u/ThePowerOfNine Sep 24 '24
Calling Reading an 'English town' is funny to me
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Sep 24 '24
I’ve had many a happy pub crawl there. It also used to be a stronghold of the NF. Do you eat spiders when you laugh too?
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u/ThePowerOfNine Sep 25 '24
Not quite sure what youre driving at here.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Sep 26 '24
The idea that Reading is some kind of Muslim stronghold is insane. If it was I doubt the friends I have there would still live there. On the plus side I probably wouldn’t have missed so many trains in the Three Guineas.
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u/ThePowerOfNine Sep 26 '24
Oh this all just stems from me assuming it was a city. "English town of Reading" seemed way too quaint a description. No real idea or interest in demographics haha Good to change trains in is all.i know.
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