Anthropax's Old Blog

The far-right, rather racist Enoch Powell fan featured here, has decided to reply to my points after a few weeks thinking time. Here we go; Relating to your comment however, firstly, you are correct in saying that there is no such thing (grammatically) as an "illegal asylum seeker", but there is such a thing as a "fake asylum seeker", where people claim asylum on the grounds of persecution in their home country, but really are in no danger whatsoever, and as government statistics show, this is the case with 3 in every 4 asylum seekers. Also, you claim that it is my moral duty as a Christian to accept refugees fleeing persecution. My answer to that is simply "no". Under European asylum laws, people fleeing from persecution in their home lands are to attain asylum in the nearest safe country from the nation they are fleeing, and you can not tell me that Britain is the nearest place of refuge for these people. Secondly, your figures from census (with ethnic breakdown statistics) do date from 2001, and hence are now out of date. May i also include that those figures relate to people known by the immigration authorities. They do not include those unknown, such as illegal immigrants. Your third point just goes to show how "slack" our asylum and immigration laws have become under New Labour, and your final point (relating to "hospital bibles", e.t.c) shows how politically correct this nation has become. This government has become so obsessed with political correctness that it feels justified in banning bibles from hospital bed side tables, as they may "offend ethnic minorities"! How unbelievebly ridiculous can a few politicians in government be?! 1. I talked about morality, not legal duties. 2. 2001 was when the last nation-wide census was, has the population changed so much in the last 4 years? 3. What? I would imagine that very few of the 30% (ish) of Leicester's population that are from and ethnic minority came to the UK since 1997. Most are long-established families who came in the 50's and 60's, and to claim that 3rd generation immigrants aren't British is racist. 4. Political correctness gets a lot of stick, but the Sapir-Worf hypothesis shows how valuable it is in preventing hate crimes. You still haven't answered my question as to why ethnic minorities would be offended by a bible. There are loads of people who are Christian and from ethnic minorities, and the Bible is held up as having some of the divine in it by Muslims. Why would ethnic minorities be offended, rather than religious ones? Oh, and the Red Cross is a private charity, and can choose not to promote Christmas if it wants. Remember, this is the person who claims that Africa is a Nation, and tells me to stop being politically correct' when I correct him. Hmmm. Bye