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Meanwhile, Muslims in the UK are not and will never be “too multicultural” to celebrate Eid. Goodbye, Bristol. Goodbye, England. Goodbye, Britain.
“Anger as council officials say UK city is ‘too multicultural’ to celebrate St George’s Day,” by Zoie O’Brien, Express, April 25, 2016:
AN ENGLISH city council REFUSED to host St George’s Day celebrations because the area is “too multicultural”.Bristol City Council allowed the national day to pass without a single event for the patron saint, despite its history dating back to 1222.Council chiefs said 91 different languages are spoken in the town and it would be “very difficult to commemorate them all”.Some in the area feel as though the English symbol has been hijacked by far right groups and are concerned about being branded “racist”.According to the Daily Star Sunday, Kalphna Woolf, founder of 91 Ways to Build a Global City, which aims to unite Bristol’s multicultural communities, said people can be frightened of the white and red St George’s flag.She said: “There was a point in the past when I’d see the St George’s Day flag flying and it would frighten me, as it had been taken over by ‘we are England’ type groups.”…
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