[Margaret Pilkington]

Less, you are wasting your time.
These 'Community Leaders' go to the mosque...you do not.
Your needs will never be recognised or met because as far as the 'community leaders' are concerned...you are NOT, nor ever will be part of their 'community'.

As for local politicians...councillors...I would bet my bottom dollar that the councillor who is in place for your ward goes to the mosque too.
There is as much racism(if not more) in this 'community' than in any non asian community.
They do not want you to integrate with them any more than they want to integrate into the general society.
They live by different rules, they operate on a different level.
The council cannot be seen not to have these 'communities' pandered to...to have their needs fully and comprehensively catered for....and as for the rest of the folk who do not fit into that particularly community...well they aren't ethnics, so they do not matter.

Now before anyone screams the R word at me...I am saying what I can see with my own eyes...and as far as I am concerned, telling the truth is not racist...but (the institutional/constitutional - if that is the right term) treatment of non muslims who live in these muslim enclaves IS.