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An uneasy feeling developing in Barbados
Barbados is a small Caribbean island with less than 300,000 people. It is known as “Little Britain” and has a reputation for being the vacation destination of the rich and famous and the polo crowd. Tiger Woods held his lavish wedding there, and it is common to see Hollywood stars or other celebrities on any day at the beach or local establishments. According to recent news stories, former British PM Tony Blair is rumoured to be shopping for a home on the island.
An uneasy feeling is developing in the local population that is majority Christian at least nominally, and among the non-Muslim religious minorities that include Hindus, Jews, Baha’i and Rastafarians.
A full court press going on by Muslims in Barbados, who are a small but very visible religious minority on the island. Although the number of Muslims has not increased substantially in the past few years, their visibility has increased dramatically as more and more Muslim women and girls in Barbados adopt the Muslim dress in daily life or for community events where the news media will be present. The full burka and veil is not as uncommon a sight as it was even two or three years ago on the streets of the capitol city of Bridgetown.
There has also been an increase in the participation of Muslims in community events and local politics all out of proportion to their numbers. There have always been people of all faiths involved in the larger community but the proportion of participation has always mirrored their proportion of the population.
Not so anymore.
In the last year the Muslim community appears to have become very community minded. The increase in their participation in local events and politics has been sudden and very noticeable.
The two major island newspapers have started to feature photographs of groups of Muslim women in full garb taking part in community activities such as a beach cleanup and a charity drive. Anywhere the groups appear they immediately become the photo op and subject of the story, largely eclipsing the coverage of other participants. These “photo op” stories along with other stories about the Muslim community are so frequently appearing in the local mews media that non-Muslims are wondering what is going on.
After consideration, the answer might be that the small Muslim community in Barbados has launched a major well-organized and well-funded PR campaign.
One of the local news blogs ran a photo of the burka clad women cleaning up the beach, but placed a rather provocative title on the story “The Muslim vision of the future for all Barbadian women”
The online attacks from Muslims and supporters were immediate and continue.
See the Barbados Free Press article:
The Muslim vision of the future for all Barbadian women
http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/the-muslim-vision-for-the-future-for-all-barbadian-women/
Atlas Shrugs previously featured the Barbados Free Press story
BBC Traitors assist Muslim Terrorists
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/bbc-traitors-assist-muslim-bombers.html
http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/bbc-traitors-assist-muslim-terrorists/
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