Passengers noticed that, despite the heat, the pair were wearing leather jackets and thick jumpers and were regularly checking their watches.
Some comments:
What knee-jerk ignorance!
- Bernie, Canada
What a disgrace.
- Tom, London
What next? Not letting Asian people board buses or even worse segregating them just like in America until recently. We must tackle the root causes of ignorance and not judge a book by its cover. As a British Muslim I feel less and less part of Britain because of the media and government campaign that lumps the trouble makers and law abiding Muslims in one basket
- Malik, London
Yes, what knee-jerk ignorance! Any objective reader would have understood that - from the article - what worried the passengers was not just their skin color but what they thought - rightly or not - was their suspicious behavior and attire. It is knee-jerk ignorance to impute their worries to skin color alone. And extremely offensive to Koreans, Chinese, etc. to call these people "Asians" to avoid calling them Indians or Indonesians. Suddenly any "Asian" is tarred with the same brush. This is political correctness gone wild.
And I would guess that not many British Muslims have ever actually felt "a part of Britain", having wilfully segregated yourselves from Britain since you arrived. Otherwise you would be troubled by the hate speech regularly preached by some imams.
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