Is It Me Or Are Things Stacked Against Us?

Dear Sir,
Last week's trip by a group of Burnley high school students to London as part of our town's Democratic Renewal Initiative gave me a distinct feeling that the visit was the exclusive preserve of just one section of our community.
It wasn't that the outing was organised by the son of Burnley's Deputy Mayor, Mr Shahid Malik, or that it appeared that the majority of those who went were Muslims.
I can live with Zulquarnaim Akhtar (15) of Habergham complaining that he didn't get the chance to tackle Mr Blair on the issue of the safety of British Muslims, and I'm even pleased that Farouk Miah (17) from Burnley College was made to realise the importance of voting.
What I find worrying is that there appears to be two agendas in the town. There is one that promotes and portrays in a positive light one section of the community and another that 'does down' the rest of us.

Harry Ford,
Burnley Wood.





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