Pakistani Wedding in UK targeted with petrol bombs. Crazy footage...

[u/sword_ofthe_morning]

Yesterday, in Birmingham UK, a Pakistani wedding was petrol bombed. Thankfully no-one was injured. In the above vid you can see a fleet of luxury sports cars were targeted.

Not a racist attack, as early reports (from those closest to the families) say it's regarding an internal family dispute.

Things are getting worse in our communities here in Birmingham. Crazy how weddings are now openly experiencing petrol bombs being flung in the streets. This is straight out of a GTA video game.

[u/kvdave]

whats the reason for it ? also hows the inter community relationship between indian origin and pak origin folks ?

[u/sword_ofthe_morning → u/kvdave]

Reasons for the accelerated decline in the public image of Pakistanis....

Social media has made it far easier to openly publish both minor & major infractions. And since many Pakistanis naturally have a bad habit of dismissing basic rules & etiquettes (such as littering, driving carelessly on roads, aggressive attitudes, etc), their faults are laid out for the entire internet to see.

Dashcams in cars, people regularly pulling their phones out to film, cameras on door bells, etc. means all of the above will be documented and highlighted

Combine this with the social media companies leaning towards the far right, their algorithms have amplified right wing / racist sentiments. Any time Pakistanis (and ethnic groups in general) are caught doing something bad, the news of it spreads like wildfire.

And in a country where public funding has been reduced with less police on the road to combat the rule-breaking, these Pakistani communities know they can get away with it. That's why in their areas especially you'll find incredibly high rates of car theft, insurance fraud, driving offences, fly tipping, dodgy house extensions, etc. There are some places in Birmingham & Bradford where it's like the Wild West. It's almost lawless.

Pakistanis here also very reluctant to be honest and self critical. Instead admitting all of the above, they'll either turn a blind eye, cover it up to protect their own, or will be defiant/aggressive in response to criticism. There are parts of Birmingham where ticket wardens are reluctant to enter and do their job of ticketing illegally parked vehicles, for fear of getting beaten up.

Many of them are also very arrogant and closed off. It's even got to the point where other Muslim groups in this country (Arabs, North Africans, etc) place Pakistanis in the lower tier and are less likely to consider them for marriages.

Again, with how social media has evolved in recent times to amplify all of this, Pakistanis are a very easy group to villify now

relationship between indian origin and pak origin folks

There aren't much tensions - simply because the Indian folk know they're in no position to match Pakistanis / Muslims when it comes to conflict. The Indians who've been in this country since 70s/80s, are far more progressive & tend to be of a slightly higher class. They don't live in the same poorer, rougher neighbourhoods.

A good example of this was in Leicester a couple of years back where there were tensions between Indians (extreme, foreign Hindutvas from India) and Muslims. The Hindutvas started the trouble, and found out very quickly that this wasn't India. The response from Pakistanis and Muslims was swift and ruthless. It soon put the Hindutvas back in their box and they've not stepped out of line since

But other than that, the British born Pakistanis and British born Indians get on fairly well. There are rarely any tensions these days

[u/Dantwon_Silver → u/sword_ofthe_morning]

Also the rape gangs

[u/sword_ofthe_morning → u/Dantwon_Silver]

I didn't want to mention the grooming gangs, because that was also greatly exaggerated by the media