Plan to 'rebrand' Muslims dismissed

[emad]

8 August 2005

Downing Street has played down suggestions that Britain's ethnic minority communities could be "rebranded" in an effort to strengthen their ties to the UK.

Home Office minister Hazel Blears suggested that representatives of Muslim and other minorities could be asked whether they would prefer to be known by US-style hyphenated terms such as Asian-British, Pakistani-British or Indian-British, rather than simply 'Asians'.

However, after a cool response to the suggestion from Muslim leaders, a No 10 spokeswoman stressed that it was not something the Government was actively promoting.

"This is something that has been put to Hazel Blears in meetings. It is not something she suggested. It is not something that the Government is proposing or suggesting," the spokeswoman said.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/PA_NEWA39965751123499164A00?source=PA%20Feed

[wtmusic]

1. "Western-oppressed" didn't make it past the first round nt

[tanyev]

2. This has Karen Hughes' clumsy fingerprints all over it.

[kliljedahl]

3. Sorry, thought you meant this

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