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 RetweetUK "Racial Equality" Head: Criticism of Veil Will Cause Violence

Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 3:37:25 pm PDT

The chairman of Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality (one of the organizations responsible for the multicultural mess the UK is in) warns that if Brits don’t start being more respectful of the RoP, there’s going to be violence: British watchdog warns on veil debate.

LONDON - The heated debate over veils that cover the faces of some British Muslim women is growing ugly and could trigger riots, the head of Britain’s race relations watchdog warned on Sunday.

Britons are becoming increasingly polarized along racial and religious lines, and if they don’t talk respectfully about their differences, tensions could fuel unrest, Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips wrote in The Sunday Times newspaper.

In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television, he said he didn’t want Britain to suffer the kind of violence that exploded in the deprived suburbs of Paris a year ago, when disaffected young people, many from immigrant backgrounds, rioted for three weeks. He warned there could also be a repeat of the rioting in several northern English towns in 2001 caused by racial tensions between white and mainly Muslim south Asian youths.

“Only this time the conflict would be much worse,” Phillips wrote in the Times. ...

In the interview with BBC, he said “what should have been a proper conversation between all kinds of British people seems to have turned into a trial of one particular community, and that cannot be right.”

“We need to have this conversation but there are rules by which we have the conversation which don’t involve this kind of targeting and frankly bullying,” he said.

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