Maybe you're not getting my point. When "Asian" youths come boiling out of a mosque - it gives the impression that they might be a bunch of Chinese kids. I don't understand the Brit's aversion to calling Muslims Muslim. It is not the "Asians" who are working toward a world wide Caliphate - it is Muslims who are. It is not "Asians" who want world wide Sharia law - it is Muslims.
Your insistance on calling Muslims "Asians" gives the appearance of Political Correctness taken to an extreme - almost like you are afraid of offending a Muslim. If I was a Korean or Japanese living in Britain - I would be highly offended when I heard rioting muslim youths described as "Asian".
The word Asian is to broad of a catagory. The word "Muslim" is more specific. And it is the "Muslims" causing trouble - not "Asians".
Some of the Muslims causing problems are not even Asian - there are Brits who have converted to Islam. If a bunch of English born converted Muslims start throwing rocks at cars - you can't very well call them "Asian", can you? You would be forced to call them what they are - "Muslims".
"Maybe you're not getting my point. When "Asian" youths come boiling out of a mosque - it gives the impression that they might be a bunch of Chinese kids."
I get your point fine, I just think you're wrong. No-one in the UK (and the article came from a local newspaper in the UK)would pause to consider that interpretation.
"I don't understand the Brit's aversion to calling Muslims Muslim."
Who do you think is worshipping in a mosque? There's hardly some conspiracy going on here to cover up the fact that Muslims were involved in the incident.
"Your insistance on calling Muslims "Asians" gives the appearance of Political Correctness taken to an extreme"
No-one is insisting on calling Muslims asian. As I've repeatedly pointed out the two words are in no way synonyms. Someone who would be given the ethnic description 'asian' does not by any means have to be a Muslim. A Muslim could be of any ethnic descent.
"If I was a Korean or Japanese living in Britain - I would be highly offended when I heard rioting muslim youths described as "Asian"."
I don't really see why. I wouldn't be offended if a group of rioting youths were described as 'white'.
"Some of the Muslims causing problems are not even Asian - there are Brits who have converted to Islam. If a bunch of English born converted Muslims start throwing rocks at cars - you can't very well call them "Asian", can you? You would be forced to call them what they are - "Muslims"."
Well, no. If the police were giving an ethnic description of these people then they would describe them as 'white' (or applicable ethnic description). Describing them as 'muslim' would give no details of their appearance at all. For precisely the same reasons as you used earlier to show why American police would give an ethnic description of 'black' rather than referring to someone as 'Jamaican'.