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To: Stoat
Fine work by Great Britain's police -snip- They work very hard to keep everyone safe......many hundreds of lives may have been saved in this one action alone.

Excellent work! What a blessing. They have my thanks. And the thanks of so many of us here in the US and in Britain who do get how serious it is despite the Sheehans of the world.

I'm curious, they call the perp a '28 year old Asian man'. Is that just PC media talk for a Muslim of Pakistani or Indonesian descent? I see the MSM might just be the same in the UK as it is here.

26 posted on 11/30/2005 6:27:25 AM PST by fortunecookie
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To: fortunecookie

28 year-old Asian man will be the description the police gave. It’s the standard description over here for someone from south Asia but remember that can mean Indian too, and it’s not always easy to tell by sight whether someone is Indian or Pakistani. Anyway, the report says he’s a Muslim later on.


30 posted on 11/30/2005 6:41:02 AM PST by FostersExport
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To: fortunecookie

"I'm curious, they call the perp a '28 year old Asian man'. Is that just PC media talk for a Muslim of Pakistani or Indonesian descent?"

'Asian' generally means Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin - ie. the bits we used to own. Not sure it's 'PC' as such, they are all in Asia! It's not really media talk either, it's general usage.


31 posted on 11/30/2005 6:43:56 AM PST by Canard
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To: fortunecookie
Oh and, for future reference, if the source of an article is The Sun newspaper, the one thing that you can be sure of is that it isn't PC!
33 posted on 11/30/2005 6:50:33 AM PST by Canard
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