Interesting, in the first half of your post you are trying to explain and justify the policies of appeasement and political correctness, in the second half of your post you blame these policies on the EU and find them disturbing.Quote from abaker:
Anyway, I guess it's quite obvious that in order to be treated nicely by the Brits one has to capture their sailors in neutral waters, kidnap their journalists and attack their civilians in trains and airports. The muslim world does that and gets the words jihad, muslim terrorism and the war on terror banned from the english language together with multiple other favors, concessions and appeasement policies. All of a sudden you treat them with kid's gloves as you don't want to alienate them even further (in reality you're just scared shitless and hoping against hope that if you're nice to the bully the bully will pick on someone else). Of course Israel and the jews don't kidnap and murder British civilians so you don't need to be nice to them and anti-zionism, boycotts, anti-semitic and anti-Israel sentiments are rampant in british society. I guess Israel and the British jews should start kidnapping and killing British civilians, then the word "Zionism" and boycotts against Israel will be banned in no time, maybe they will even start teaching about the Holocaust in British schools.
And here is an illustration of how well your policies work:
Here is how you treat them:
63% of all Britons had a favourable opinion of Muslims, down slightly from 67% in 2004, suggesting last year's London bombings did not trigger a significant rise in prejudice. Attitudes in Britain were more positive than in the US, Germany and Spain (where the popularity of Muslims has plummeted to 29%), and about the same as in France.
and here is what you get in return:
By contrast, the poll found that British Muslims represented a "notable exception" in Europe, with far more negative views of westerners than Islamic minorities elsewhere on the continent...Another startling result found that only 32% of Muslims in Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews, compared with 71% of French Muslims.
Across the board, Muslim attitudes in Britain more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East and Asia than elsewhere in Europe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1804078,00.html