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What I am wondering here is why you are talking about India if it were actually Pakistanis, at least according to the few articles I've read. Of course this is also the subcontinent, but why aren't the Indians against their enemies? I assumed India and Pakistan really don't like each other? Do they want to be blamed unjustly? Or is the culture regarding this behavior similar enough that they don't really mind being put together?
By subcontinent I meant to include the whole of the region from Afghanistan till Bangladesh. Indians despise Pakistan and to an extent Sikhs. Every single Hindu nationalists keeping track of these events and indians in the UK don't align as much with Pakistan.
Indians don't commit sexual assault or other crimes at the same rate as Afghanistan or Pakistan if you go by media perception.
The behaviors across the subcontinent don't vary very much sadly. I dislike Pakistan and Afghanistan, they embody all of Indias pitfalls but somehow make it worse.
One of the mods here is an Indian in the UK lol
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The people who did this should have the shit beaten out of them followed by a public hanging (short drop method, it needs to be painful pour encourager les autres). It's the only way to keep those like them under control and the sooner westerners recognize this the better.
Well said.
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Yes, one cannot argue with that!
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