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In Northern Ireland, Immigrants Are Increasingly Met With Fists
The New York Times ^ | November 28, 2014 | Douglas Dalby

Posted on 11/28/2014 7:01:33 PM PST by Bettyprob

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 16 years after the Good Friday peace deal brought real hope that Protestants and Roman Catholics could live together in relative harmony, Northern Ireland is being racked by another wave of violence.

The expanding problem appears to be partly racial and partly directed at immigrants of all backgrounds at a time when open borders in the European Union have led more legal migrants to Britain and Ireland in search of work. At the same time, war and economic deprivation have driven waves of legal and illegal migrants toward Europe from Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and parts of Africa tell stories similar to those of people from China, India and Pakistan who have lived here for decades.

Mohammed Khattack, a 24-year-old Pakistani who arrived in Belfast last year hoping to study humanities after three years in London, got a first warning one night in June when an empty wine bottle shattered the front window of his rented house in north Belfast. When he and his housemate, who is also from Pakistan, began cleaning up the next morning, small groups of neighbors had formed. But they had not come to help — they had come to gloat.

Then one of them began raining blows down on Mr. Khattack amid a tirade of racist slurs.

“He was a big guy and he approached me, and at this point I called the police to report trespass as he was inside the gate,” Mr. Khattack said. “But he grabbed me in a headlock and began punching me and jumping on my legs. I managed to get into the house, but he followed me through the door until I got to the bathroom and there he continued to beat me.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aliens; goodjob; immigration; ireland

1 posted on 11/28/2014 7:01:33 PM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob
Use these....

...boys.
2 posted on 11/28/2014 7:05:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

So. People are beating up muslim immigrants? I wonder why?


3 posted on 11/28/2014 7:10:47 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
As we were told during the Obama election and every SCOTUS decision, maybe we need to be more like the Europeans.

So much more urban and cosmopolitan and all that.

4 posted on 11/28/2014 7:13:51 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t they sell those on Adam & Eve?


5 posted on 11/28/2014 7:15:11 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: Bettyprob
The Destruction of Ireland through Immigration

The Enforced Destruction of the Irish People Has Begun

6 posted on 11/28/2014 7:15:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: JSteff

Maybe we need to be more like THE IRISH. Fixed.

Seriously though, there are immigrants I do not want in this country, and muslims are at the top of that list.


7 posted on 11/28/2014 7:18:01 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

‘zackly.


8 posted on 11/28/2014 7:38:11 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Bettyprob

I kept reading expecting to be outraged. I was not. Kudos to the Irish for trying to preserve their heritage from a suicidal immigration policy they NEVER voted for


9 posted on 11/28/2014 7:42:48 PM PST by montag813
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To: Bettyprob

Putting up with Catholics or Protestants is bad enough.But they both draw the line at Pakistanis.


10 posted on 11/28/2014 7:54:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Bettyprob

“At the same time, war and economic deprivation have driven waves of legal and illegal migrants toward Europe from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.”

I think what the Slimes meant to say was....

“At the same time, free food, free housing, free medical care, free transportation, open borders, and politicians willing to kiss their asses, have attracted waves of legal and illegal migrants toward Europe from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.


11 posted on 11/28/2014 8:20:01 PM PST by aquila48
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To: JSteff

You know you’re right. Didn’t Her Royal Highness -I’m-So-Cool-And - Tolerant Gwyenth Paltrow tell us how marvelously sophisticated and intellectual the Brits are and how we Americans should be like them? Out of the mouth of Hollywood idiots. Who’d a thought it!


12 posted on 11/28/2014 8:25:24 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: aquila48

....’’have attracted waves of legal and illegal migrants towards Europe from Asia, the Middle East and Africa who promptly proceed to start raping and killing the citizens of their new home countries while enjoying taxpayer funded social benefits.


13 posted on 11/28/2014 8:29:57 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Bettyprob

Why does no one ask who is pushing the agenda to dilute the indigenous population, and why?


14 posted on 11/28/2014 10:25:24 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Bettyprob

“at a time when open borders in the European Union have led more legal migrants to Britain and Ireland in search of work. At the same time, war and economic”

They continue to stream into places that white guys built. How ‘bout that...?


15 posted on 11/29/2014 6:11:21 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Bettyprob

Didn’t they just join the EU? They didn’t see this coming?


16 posted on 11/29/2014 6:20:29 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

‘..Didn’t they just join the EU? They didn’t see this coming?..’

Oh dear..


17 posted on 11/29/2014 2:12:44 PM PST by Michael Collins (All I know through experience is all I comment on..)
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