Hmm, actually Pyraxis, given the somewhat awkward example you quoted (no , i don't mind, but this one happens to be awkward, taken out-of-context) , i fell I have to try and explain the complex role that Muslims have in the British Economy, a little bit. It's complex because there is no single definitive "muslim " population here, and you can't certainly put them down, wholsale as an economic underclass. My example was intended to illustrate that . And to illustrate how a genuine memberiof the economic underclass might well feel that his position has been completely misconstued and pissed upon, by the "liberal "pro-immigration rhetoric .
The "poor v rich" antagonism can easily extend to some groups of Muslims . In a country where there's a genuine and serious housing crisis, Landlords are not popular figures, ofc. They may not all be "rich " exactly, but they're clearly gaining an econnomic advantage from said economic crisis, and often exploit that advantage pretty ruthlessly. Given that something like 75% of Brits can't afford to buy their own home, and are never likely to, we do , quite naturally, think of Landlors as way above us, in the economic pyramid. The Muslim Landlord is a particularly common figure, largely because of the Way Muslim banking works. Islam is against "usury", so Muslims to ften "make their money work for them " by investing in property, rather than by buying shares. Hence, a sucessful Muslim is all-too-likely to be a Landlord, much more so than members of other religions. Just that fact alone is enough to make any representation of Muslims as an underclass seem pretty laughable in general.
Such landlords wil as likely be milking poor Muslimns as milking poor non-muslims, I should add, if that matters. I might also add that the Muslim Landlords in the North mostly hail from long-established British Muslim communities (mostlty hailing from Pakistan and Bangladesh) , The stinking rich Middle-eastern Musslims who buy up properties in The South are another kettle of fish, but they don't help improve the Northerner's image of Muslims. They are disliked all the more, on account of speculations that they are the reason why the Muslims , as a whole, appear to have undue powrr and infuence in Britain.
We do have a lot of sympathy with poor Muslims fleeing Syra, but that'smixed with A) genuine fears regarding the spread of Islam (which i'll sabe for another post) B) genuine fears about increasing population pressure, and inxcreasing numbers of people actually living on the streets C) recognition of the fact that that migrants, of all race and creed, are being exploited as much as possible , then pushed into the human dustbin in the North once it's clear that they can't hack it in the South any better than the rest of us can. We;re not inclined to regard that as genuine "kindness". We seeing them become as anxious , depressed, disillusioned and and desperate as the rest of us. Britain doesn't meet their expectations any better than Britain meets ours, as it happens. Indeed they're often shockedand apalled in a way we jaded natives have ceased to be shocked and apalled.
I could give more reasons, but that's prolly enough?
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