A white Muslim mother who was spat at and abused by drunken football fans in front of her children today told of her humiliation at the hands of the “racist cowards”.

Mother-of-five Michelle Idrees, 27, from Luton, said she had been too scared to travel to London or use public transport since the ordeal.

Apparently, she was was called a “f***ing Muslim slag” and told her son, then aged four, would be the “next suicide bomber” by a family of Arsenal supporters.

Aside from the obvious rudeness and ad hominems, these (I assume) football “supporters” are just plain obnoxious. However, this isn’t a race issue, this is a religion issue. Unless the Arsenoids were non-white, of course, in which case they may have been “motivated” to act like asshats for race reasons, and makes most of this post pointless, but I seriously doubt that they were non-white.

She also claimed that real Muslims did not support terrorism. Just like “real” muslims don’t wander through the streets of London carrying placards bearing such notices as “behead those who call Islam violent”, nor take trips to Afghanistan to join militant outfits, nor wear explosive laden knapsacks on their backs and take trips on the Underground.

Apparently, though, they also called a black woman on the train a nigger, so they were quite obviously racist (I think it unlikely that they used ‘nigger’ in it’s familiar sense). However, the fact is that they were not racist to her, they were intolerant and agressive to her religion, but not her race.

Mrs Idrees and her children are moving to Pakistan, where her third husband Mohammed Arif’s family are from, next month. “My kids will all be able to choose if they want to be Muslims,” she said. “But I want them to live somewhere they feel accepted and where they don’t have to suffer abuse.”

While I commend Mrs Idrees’ ideals for not forcing her choice of non-thinking on her children at present, she’s obviously not throught this through very much, as her intended move to Pakisan will likely involve these children not having a choice about the indoctrination that they will undoubtedly have to put up with.

And I seriously doubt that they will feel accepted in Pakistan, and will likely indeed suffer abuse. It’s not just whites who can be racist.

More at the Daily Mail

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