John Reid expresses honest concerns over Islamic bullies

John Reid has today, articulated some of the concerns of the British people, although some commentator's suggest his speech given at Labour Party conference was some prelude to a leadership bid, me I think Labour politicians are responding to very real fears in the wider community.

A few days ago, just to give some perspective, John Reid spoke to a Muslim group, he had some heckling from Islam convert Abu Izzadean, now this guy, seems to be in favour of segregation, because he had the cheek, to say to the Home Secretary 'How dare you come to a Muslim area' fortunately we do live in a democracy so we can go anywhere we please, despite the apparent hatred, this guy has a sense of humour, in fact he says as much, in his entry on an Islamic website, where apparently he is seeking a second, third or 4th wife, despite many of us, thinking this is immoral, and illegal (as reported in yesterday's Sun).

Obviously part of the subject matter, of the speech, could be seen as highly emotive, but these things have to be articulated and hopefully he struck the right balance of inclusion the Muslim community, and perhaps highlighting some of the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.

Most significantly, the Home Secretary has revisited the subject of forced marriage, which only a few months ago the Home Office had rather cowardly in my opinion, deserted the of victims of this appalling crime just because and again this is my opinion the victims were first generation British citizens of Asian descent and rather than protect victims they preferred to appease a vocal minority of religious bigots.

Certainly the 300 estimated victims of this crime deserved better treatment and assistance than they so far had.

Just to show how competent the Home Office is despite attempting to contact Baroness Scotland whom I believe announced the abandonment of forced marriage legislation, several phone calls and e-mails could not get me an address to enable me to write to her, what I did get some weeks later was a company contact me, to ask what I thought about my response to the inquiries to the Home Office( are you ????*** mad?).

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