Proud: Postmaster Deva Kumarsiri wants customers to embrace British culturePosted on 03/21/2009 1:27:00 PM PDT by BGHater
Deva Kumarasiri looks remarkably unruffled. His royal-blue shirt is clean and crisp, his stripy tie is immaculately knotted, his trousers beautifully creased, his glasses polished to a shine and his mobile phone clipped to his belt in a neat, Velcroed holster.
Indeed, as he sits behind his Post Office counter, smiling through the smeared glass and dolling out stamps, family allowance payments and helpful advice to a queue of customers, he couldn't look more professional and composed.
Which is a bit of a surprise, because he's had a pretty torrid few days. Vilified and cheered in equal measure, he's been in countless newspapers, on the radio and on television and has whipped up a right old storm in internet chatrooms.
Yesterday, the chairman of the local Mosque, Aurangzeb Kahn, confirmed that a petition was circulating among Muslim residents calling for Mr Kumarasiri to be sacked.
Just in case you haven't seen a paper, or the news, or turned on the radio in the past 72 hours, Deva is a Sri-Lankan-born postmaster and father-of-two.
For the past six months, he has been running the very small - you can barely move behind the counter with all the parcels, papers and Jiffy bags - but very busy Post Office in Sneinton, a particularly multicultural area of Nottingham.
He also flies enormous Union Jack flags from his home and Land Rover Discovery and, earlier this week, admitted he had introduced a rule for his customers - 'No English, no service.'
If they can't even be bothered to learn English, he tells them, they must go away and learn it, or come back with a translator.
Proud: Postmaster Deva Kumarsiri wants customers to embrace British culture
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Facing the sack and vilified by local Muslims ... but the Postman Patriot insists he won't back down on his pro-British stance
He could be the governor of Louisianna, if he speaks well.
A rare breed.
THIS is the kind of immigrant the British should be seeking.
This is a specific immigrant the US should be putting on a short list.
It is time for the West to end all Muslim immigration. They cause too much trouble and cannot be trusted.
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