#most north african religons too

[blackfilmmakers]

Imagine making a post that says "listen to Black people" and when said Black people say something is cultural appropriation your response is to call them a hotep

[davishopefulacademia1]

Is a Reactionary polemic the cause of fear & hatred against non western religons? 2nd migrants & religion

The white conservative polemic is that the migrant communities refuse to integrate into majority UK culture & their religious practices are not in line with Britain’s[1]. ��The most visible migrant community being the Pakistani Muslim communities in the North of England. Their relative success only has ingrained resentment from the white English population[2][3]. The white English in conflict with the northern England Muslim population are mainly from those who worked in the semi-skilled manual and factory jobs[4], based in the ex-Mill Towns of the north of England.  

When a migrant arrives in any country, they are not a part of, the first thing they will do is too seek out people with a similar language, ethnicity, culture & religious practice  It is not out of desire of deliberate segregation, that is the outsider’s supposed mutual hostility of the host countries culture.   This desire is borne out of the need for safety. Outsiders are labelled with curiosity, hostile indifference, or outright open hostility[5].

The hostility varies form intolerance, outright violence to political opportunism. Each one presents different levels of danger to 1st generation migrants and us 2nd , 3rd generation descendants. Even amongst the political white liberals, Margaret Hodge a senior MP implied that poor whites suffer, because they are second to migrant families[6][7]. That is one of the may problems we as black people are up against. Even our representatives use their white privilege and legal powers to scapegoat black and brown people of a situation, which is poverty & government neglect, that is not their fault. Her comments were post 9/11 & 4 years into a war. With hindsight the 2 wars have polarised the religion,  ethnicity and politics. The racist arguments of the 1960’s & 70 that immigrants will take housing and jobs while the majority white working population will lose are directly comparable to the present day one’s that say the poor white population lose out to a prosperous ethnic minority population[8].

Unless that person is exceptionally rich or talented[9][10]( for example world class musicians) who are more socially accepted based on money and popularity[11], ordinary outsiders must contend with starting as a nobody. Socially laden epitaphs are ascribed to these outsiders, even the utilitarian “migrant” & “immigrant” would be given a negative spin with connotations[12]. The migrant communities will congregate in together in what they consider safe spaces away from massed mob violence of the increasingly majority population[13]. There is not only majority against minority violence, but also minority against minority violence, with this perceived danger, people would gravitate towards protective communities and cultural & their religious spaces.

 Caribbean people found their community in the local churches they set up when they first arrived in Britain[14],  and still maintain to this present day. By free choice or given no option but to live in the cities, First generation migrant Caribbean & African Black people had no other option other than to reside in the inner cities for Black Britain and the suburbs (banlieue) in France.  

Politics, living space and religion are intersectional and always coincide. Living space and religion are in the communities in the North of England where British Muslims live together primarily for safety as well as solidarity. With British Muslims, their perception/belief of Islam as a system within itself has legitimised the divide in hostile spaces.  

Migration to the Uk is the result of government policy and the post-colonial need for commercial labour.  The religions of the migrant communities have attempted to maintain the traditional practices of their original countries. This is apparent with the Pakistani Muslim community in the North of England.

The injustices inflicted upon  brown peoples is historical and is worsening at this present time. In addition, racial and religious injustices have always been set against poor whites.  

[1] Sally Tomlinson (2018) Enoch Powell, empires, immigrants and education, Race Ethnicity and Education, 21:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2017.1365055  

[2] The Casey Review A review into opportunity and integration Dame Louise Casey DBE CB.   https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/575973/The_Casey_Review_Report.pdf  

[3] Community cohesion: the views of white working-class communities Professor Harris Beider  https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/files/working-class-community-cohesion-full.pdf  

[4] https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/WhoCaresAboutTheWhiteWorkingClass-2009.pdf    Runnymede Trust.  

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnSujE3NC4    Minorities in Britain - The Pakistani Community (1966). Film extracts from a programme examining the Pakistani community in Britain, taken from a 1966 BBC2 series on Minorities in Britain. Narrated by Zaynab Dahya and produced by Michael Bunce. First broadcast on BBC2 at 7.30pm on Monday 27th June 1966.

[6] Kjartan Páll Sveinsson:7   Runnymede Trust. The Poor whites and Multiculturalism: Is There Space for a Progressive Agenda?  Who Cares about the White Working Class? :7

[7] Ibid: “…“should look at policies where the legitimate

sense of entitlement felt by the indigenous family

overrides the legitimate need demonstrated by

the new migrants”

[8] ibid

[9] http://www.tracesproject.org/  An untold history of contributions to arts and culture from men and women who have sought safety in the UK from conflict and persecution.  

[10] http://www.tracesproject.org/hong-dam/  Hong’s artistic expression is rooted in her experience as an eight-year-old girl

[11] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shyamanthaasokan/meet-the-uk-artists-who-came-here-as-migrants-and-refugees   Shyamantha Asokan.(08/05/15).  Buzzfeed News. Meet the U.K. Artists Who Came Here as Immigrants.

[12]     Camila Ruz. BBC News Magazine. (28/08/2015)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34061097  

[13] Warwick University. Modern Records Centre. (11/03/20). Notting Hill Riots 1959. https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/racism/riots    

[14] https://unherd.com/2018/05/windrush-generation-kept-faith/     KATIE HARRISON.  How the Windrush generation kept their faith