“Most of our British Muslim population is Pakistani. If that population was Indonesian or Tunisian the situation would not be the same. Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.”

"FANATICS OF LONDON" http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/06/hitchensqanda200706/, by Walter Owen, "Vanity Fair", (06/02/2007)
2000s, 2007

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