Communalist violence is erupting in England, more specifically the English city of Leicester in the Midlands, one of the most racially diverse parts of the UK. While an uneasy tension dressed up as tolerance and unity has long characterised cities like Leicester, recent violence between British Asian youths of Indian Hindu and Pakistani Muslim descent is of a different scale, and seems to involve the wholesale import of South Asian sectarianism. Coincidentally, last weekend also marked five decades since the first Ugandans of South Asian descent landed in the UK.
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Religious violence comes to England
communalist violence is erupting in england, more specifically the english city of leicester in the midlands, one of the most racially diver...
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