From Wiki:
The town now has a large Asian ["Asian"...nice euphemism] community - making up over 30% of the town's population. Savile Town and Ravensthorpe are populated mainly by Muslims of Indian and Pakistani origin; most of the central and western areas of the town have a large Muslim minority. In recent years, there has also been an immigration of Iraqi Kurds into the town.
However, Some areas of the town remain almost entirely White, such as Chickenley and Thornhill Edge.
Race relations in Dewsbury are generally harmonious but not free from all problems. There was a riot, nearly twenty years ago, in 1989 following from a National Front march that clashed with a large group of Asian men who staged a march the same day, The riot spread into the mostly Asian area of Saville Town. A group of mostly white drinkers in a Saville Town pub called "The Scarbrough" were forced to flee to the upstairs of the building whilst an angry Asian mob ransacked the public house and also attempted to burn alive those trapped upstairs.
More recently, trouble between Pakistani and Iraqi men in Thornhill Lees on Monday, 11th December 2006. The town's M.P., Shahid Malik, was criticised in June 2007 by the Kirklees Racial Equality Council for his comments on local knife crime, which were said to have "poured fuel on the flames of friction between Kurdish and Pakistani young men".
The British National Party, which is often accused of being a racist organisation and openly opposes multi-culturalism in favour of a single English Identity, has sizeable support in Dewsbury: it polled its largest gross vote (only second largest by percentage) in the 2005 general election in Dewsbury, and won the "Dewsbury East" ward in the local elections of 4th May 2006.
No comments:
Post a Comment