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[Iftikhar]

Muslim community is a part and parcel of British society. Muslim community pays all sorts of direct and indirect taxes, contributing for the economic and social prosperity of the British society.

[mickthinks]

Muslim community is a part and parcel of British society.

If you believed that (and I suspect you don't really) then you would not insist on segregated schools for Muslim children.

[Iftikhar]

The demand for state funded |Muslim schools with Muslim teachers is nothing to do with segregation or integration. It is purely an educational issue.

[mickthinks]

The demand for state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers is not purely an educational issue. It is all about Muslims not being "part and parcel of British society".

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by Iftikhar

The demand for state funded |Muslim schools with Muslim teachers is nothing to do with segregation or integration. It is purely an educational issue.

If it were an educational issue, then Muslims would pay for it themselves and not be begging for free money to spend from the UK taxpayer.

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by Iftikhar

Muslim community is a part and parcel of British society. Muslim community pays all sorts of direct and indirect taxes, contributing for the economic and social prosperity of the British society.

Which still does not mean that you should have free madrasahs.

Especially since a big portion of the taxes you pay are recycled back into the cost of police protection, surveillance, etc. made necessary by your extremist views.

And the truth is that the biggest Muslim wage-earners (and therefore taxpayers) in the UK are the ones who have successfully made the transition to British society, integrated themselves well as UK citizens, and aren't banging the drum asking to create their own separate enclave of shariah law and Islamic schooling.

I'd also say that the Islamic community forms a large part of the social welfare takers in the UK. So between the extra police protection and national defense required, and the drain on the social safety net, whatever taxes UK Muslims pay probably net out as a negative financial contribution overall.

In other words, you're a guest in the UK who isn't paying your full fare. Maybe you should start acting with a little more gratitude and lose the pretentious list of Islamist demands.