Yes! Or “Mediterranean” for Moroccan, Tunisian, or Libyan perps.
They should get called out on it more often. Deceptive jerks.
What a laugh. Until recently "asian" meant "oriental". They think that stirring muslim scum into the pot with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. will somehow blunt the reality of Islam. We are not fooled. No one ever was.
“Asian” in the UK means South Asian(ie India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).
Arabs and other Middle Eastern people are usually not called “Asian” in the UK.
Problematic behavior by “Asians” in the UK is usually done by Pakistanis.
That’s because it’s not necessarily muslims which are being referred to. In Britain ‘Asian’ has long been the colloquial term for all the brown-skinned peoples deriving from the Indian sub-continent (ie the four countries of the former British India). It thus includes Hindus, Sikhs etc of whom there are also large numbers in Britain.