# Why do liberals give positive discrimination to muslims?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-liberals-give-positive-discrimination-to-muslims/748260 "2016-03-08T04:59:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-liberals-give-positive-discrimination-to-muslims/748260/61 "2016-03-09T07:56:11Z")

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> [@Media too pro-muslim?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-too-pro-muslim/747303/105):
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> Considering the OP’s previous statement that:
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> > [@Media too pro-muslim?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-too-pro-muslim/747303/105):
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> > Anyway, the term “muslim” is slang/colloquium for Pakistanis in the UK…
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> Perhaps he’d like to clarify just which of his personal meanings for muslim he’s referring to?

‘Muslim’ is slang for Pakistani here? I must have missed that memo.

It’s true that ‘Asian’ is very roughly synonymous with ‘Pakistani or Indian’ in common UK parlance (maybe that’s what the OP was thinking of?), but as far as I can tell, when people say "Muslim’, they’re talking about people with some sort of adherence to Islam (or maybe in some cases, people who just have some social and cultural trappings that have some sort of Islamic influence).

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