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Order in society without a great burden on the adherents.
| Now the numbers are growing, and the big thing seems to me to be the prohibition against alcohol. The Coloureds are like some other groups in other parts of the world in that they have a particular weakness (party genetic and partly otherwise) in that area and it's hard for the communities as a whole to stay healthy and prosperous. When they convert to Islam and stop drinking things change and it's easy to see how one could easily feel superior to those who surround them when they start prospering in a relative sense. |
This is a pretty outrageous statement on several levels. To begin with any such statement would require a fairly strong burden of scientific proof before it could be seriously discussed. Without such a basis it can easily be used as a basis for baseless paternalistic racial stereotyping.
You could just as easily make this statements about any group, lets face it the Irish Like to drink to excess and in the UK the national passtime is binge drinking.
The fact is every racial group tends to like to drink to excess, what stops most groups are social pressures and responsibilities.
The reformed community should really try to avoid giving racial offence, even if it is not intended.