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culture clash

Date: July 24, 2005 | 16 Jumada al-Akhir 1426 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: britain, america, news, commentary
So I'm reading all the stories about the furor in the UK over the police shooting and killing a man. There should be a furor because rather than being a Muslim suicide bomber, the victim was an unarmed Brazilian.

But then I saw this story in the local newspaper: Kent police fatally shoot man fleeing in stolen car (Kent is a small city near Seattle). It's the kind of thing that only appears on an inside page of the paper and isn't even worth commentary. And Kent, Washington, is just an average American community.

I couldn't help but think that Britain really must be a very different country than the U.S. Would the shooting in London have even been news if it occurred in the U.S.? It's just too common here and happens too often for it to have the shock value it does in Britain.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 12:41 AM

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