Posted on 03/24/2008 8:16:21 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Muslim immigrants face so much discrimination and hostility that they don't feel they belong here, according to a liberal research group.
As part of efforts to improve integration, it called for an improvement in public behaviour towards Muslims.
And it said other Britons are wrong to worry about segregation and Muslim-dominated enclaves, as there are benefits to "residential clustering".
The report, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is a strike for multiculturalism, the doctrine which encourages the development of minorities.
Multiculturalism fell out of favour in 2005, after the Government's equality chief Trevor Phillips warned that the country was "sleepwalking to segregation".
Ministers have since called for the encouragement of "cohesion", including more teaching of English and an end to grants being handed to organisations from single ethnic and religious groups.
The study, based on interviews with 319 men and women, including 229 Muslims, found that the majority of interviewees had not experienced unfair treatment because of their colour or ethnicity.
Fewer than 50 per cent of minority members interviewed had experienced race prejudice and just 30 per cent of recent Muslim immigrants had experienced religious discrimination.
The report, produced by researchers from the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, at Oxford University, found that: "A sense of belonging in Britain for all migrants, recent and established, was negatively affected by their perception of lack of acceptance in the UK.
"It is this perception of being unwelcome and of discrimination rather than attachment to their country of origin that diminishes a sense of belonging in British society, and there is thus a need to address public attitudes towards Muslims and towards migrants as a key component of cohesion strategy."
On ethnic enclaves, it said findings "challenge the assumption that residential clustering of people from particular ethnic or religious backgrounds is necessarily a barrier to social interaction across those boundaries".
The report added that perception of religious prejudice contributing to unfairness over employment, housing and services, had deepened among Muslims since 2001.
Linking anti-terrorist campaigns with efforts to encourage cohesion, it added, "risks stigmatising and alienating law-abiding Muslim communities".
But the Communities Department, which is charged with encouraging integration, distanced itself from the report.
It said policy involves a move away from funding single groups so that public money is spent on bringing communities together.
Rival think tank Civitas said it was "tendentious" of researchers to emphasise discrimination when a majority said they had experienced none.
Are they leaving?
Whatever this report says to do, do the opposite.
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What idiots. They have forgotten one of the greatest traditions of the British Empire; when in Britain, you follow *British* custom. If you visit a Brit or deal with Brit reps while overseas - you STILL follow Brit customs. No exceptions - save for the US.
Is this a joke?
“that they don’t feel they belong here.”
Got news for you bub,....They don’t.
Simple as that.
Ok, I’ll get some goats for them to ravage.
Oh, for bleep’s sake. They’re supposed to be immigrants, not colonists.
An English boot up a Muslim Ass would help clarify the situation.
The only way British could make Muslims feel more welcome is if they wore targets on their backs.
Neither. They're invaders.
Poor widdle babies, FREAKING PACK UP AND LEAVE.
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Hmmm. Maybe the whites should start by beheading the members of the liberal research group.
What a steaming pile of squeeze. Can't these people ever tell the truth?
Multiculturalism is a doctrine which deconstructs, dilutes & ultimately destroys the host culture. Period.
Its nothing to celebrate.
They mean like bring back the guillotine?
How about Muslims leave whites alone so THEY can feel at home in their own country! Whites need not do anything. Diversity is a sure way to destroy a country. The Muslims need to learn to assimilate!
oh those poor immigrant muslims. my heart bleeds for them. most of them have ZERO interest to integrate in our society Hell most of them refuse even to learn the language of the country they live.
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