On Monday morning, police found the bodies of a year-old man and a year-old woman in Bowling Park, following a suspected suicide pact. Then on Monday afternoon came the the story that would dominate the news for days. A lawyer in the city contacted the media to report that three sisters and their nine children had not returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca and were feared to have crossed into Syria rather than return to their homes in Little Horton.
By the time the television trucks had settled in, another unwanted headline emerged. A Bradford-born teenager admitted plotting to travel to Syria to join Islamic State. We do not yet know what led the Dawood sisters to apparently take their children into a warzone, but speculation has naturally begun as to why they appear to have turned their backs on Britain and inner city Bradford, where they were born and brought up.
Some wonder if increasing segregation in the central districts of the city was encouraging some Muslims to lead parallel lives. It is not a new thesis. Back in , in the aftermath of violent race riots triggered by the National Front threatening to march in the city, academics looked for explanations as to how the violence erupted, leading to the criminalisation of dozens of disaffected, mainly British-Pakistani men.
They do not touch at any point, let alone overlap and promote any meaningful interchange. Adding to the insular nature of some of the British Pakistani-majority districts is the widespread practice of importing spouses, usually cousins, from ancestral villages.
The three runaway sisters had all been married off to men from Pakistan with varying degrees of success. The husbands of the other two appeared at an emotional press conference in Bradford on Tuesday to insist they were happily married and had no idea why their wives had fled.
An industrial estate acts as a buffer between the districts, with a pub run by a Sikh family signalling that you are crossing from one world into another. Chumber, 18, talks fondly of how the pub used to get so busy when he was a lad that it would take 10 minutes to get to the bar. Not any more. Behind the counter, the family keeps a framed document, the glass now smashed, listing every pub which existed in the neighbouring area since There were These days, there are just three ; some turned into flats, others shops and others mosques.
Apart from the loss in takings, Chumber did not seem concerned about pockets of Bradford becoming ever more monocultural. Bradford is multicultural only insofar as there are pockets of different cultures living side by side. Segregation both ethnic and class-based is problematic because it limits contact with those who are different and this, in turn, can lead to insularity. Green does not like the term segregation. The council leader thinks it is pejorative and imbued with a sense of enforcement.
But to change the system of school placement is incredibly difficult. He said the council had yet to find a satisfactory way of changing catchment areas, but had begun to experiment by twinning predominantly white schools with overwhelmingly British Asian ones. So what people tend to overlook when they talk about segregation are the positive sides, the strong bonds and family ties which exist. Victorious Pakistan , Nov 1, Sep 29, 10, Aug 31, 16, UK definitely has the highest number of Paindoo Pakistanis.
Have met Canadian, American and Irish Pakistanis and none of them are like this. Mass generalization because there are a lot in UK that are not like this but there is still a relatively high number that do behave like this. Prince Pathan , Nov 1, The ones I've met in Scotland seem quite different.
Don Corleone , Nov 2, SwingNSeam , Nov 2, Passionate Pakistani , Nov 2, Check this guy out: NSFW. Bradford accent is quite unique I always find that guys up there are always behind when it comes to the latest fashion trends.. Sep 8, 2, Had to jump in on this one as we're on about Bradford If you look for scum, you find scum. No one in my friends circle, or even acquaintances talks remotely like those videos, I also seriously doubt anyone at University, or with a half respectable job sounds that way too..
I get the comedy in it, but I just thought it's worth pointing out to those who have just heard of Bradford but don't live here. Where is the personality gone? It's a quiff, light stubble, chinos, loafers or pumps, and shirt Stan1 , Nov 4, Sep 22, 31, Loool the way they say the F word in bradistan accent rofl Those chavvy girls lol hilarious. The accent is really hilarious compared to how southerners talk lol. Fireworks11 , Nov 4, Walsall badmanz. Choi Saab and his mates are like this.
Passionate Pakistani , Nov 4, Lol and their haircut man.. Also has the same hairstyle. SwingNSeam , Nov 4, Gangster kids on forum. Fireworks11 , Nov 5, Oct 8, 26, Patriot , Nov 7, Red Devil rofl. Passionate Pakistani , Nov 7, Jan 12, 2, ElRaja , Nov 7,
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