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Originally posted by unionist:
[b]Muslims - "an ethnic minority"????????
No kidding????
What, is Islam hereditary now?
Talk to me about the Lebanese. Or Filipinos. Or Punjabis. Or Bengalis. Or Kashmiris. Are the "Muslim" flavour of each of those a different "ethnic minority"????
This discussion is rapidly degenerating. Islam is a legitimate target for scorn, laughter, condemnation, refutation, and ridicule. Its pernicious influence has [b]no place[/b] in any modern public school system, let alone anywhere that science and reason and logic are being discussed.
But people who happen to be of Muslim faith are not "ethnic". That, with the greatest of respect, is crap.[/b]
Beleif in Islam is a defining charateristic of several visible minorities in th UK. Dawkins choice of targets is very revealing, as is the insertion of an attack on multiculturalism, which is the policy that defends all ethnic minorities regardless of religious belief.
Dawkins views are nothing but a racist attack upon progressive policies. Such is blatantly evident, both by the choice of target and his conclusion.