So, you think it is OK to not rent out your house to someone because he is Muslim?
That it is all right to write “For Vegetarians Only” in a classified ad for your house?
That the neighbourhood mutton shop should be removed because of its foul smell?
Well, think again.
What you do to others, others can do to you.
What’s nectar to you can be noxious to others.
A landlord in Britain has instructed his staff not to let his property to “coloured” people because of the curry smell they leave behind.
Coloured people are us.
“They” is us, Indians and Pakistanis.
Fergus Wilson, 69, described as “Britain’s biggest buy-to-let landlord”, owns nearly 1,000 homes.
His directive, seen by The Sun newspaper, reportedly reads: “No coloured people because of the curry smell at the end of the tenancy.”
In an email to his staff, he writes:
To be honest, we’re getting overloaded with coloured people.
“It is a problem with certain types of coloured people — those who consume curry — it sticks to the carpet.
“You have to get some chemical thing that takes the smell out. In extreme cases you have to replace the carpet.”
Whether it is vegetable curry or chicken curry or mutton curry that has got Wilson’s goat, we do not know but you might like to keep him in mind the next time you put in some fragrant curry or bay leaves in your sambar.
Or turn out somebody.
In January, Wilson had banned single mums, battered wives, plumbers and low income earners from renting his homes.
Ferguson’s acts are of course racist, just as what is happening in Yogi Adityanath‘s Uttar Pradesh today in the name of shutting down illegal slaughter houses—religion-based economic terrorism to deprive the poor of cheap protein.
Photograph: courtesy The Sun
Read the full story: Curry makes UK landlord ban ‘coloureds’
Also read: ‘You may as well kill us’, the human cost of the meat ban
churumuri 
Disagree Sir. Shutting down illegal activity cannot be equated to racism. In fact, you should have welcomed for the action initiated to stop illegal activity in any form-whether cheap protein or cheap milk. Additionally, a property owner has every right to decide on his tenant and do not find fault in it.
To summarise, both Yogi and Land-owner are correct. Do not bring religion in between.
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What Mr Fergus Wilson thinks or says is his sweet wish and will because he is an individual landowner and dislike some people, their colour or their food because of the pungent smell of the curries and sambar thus he do not entertain those people for letting his house. He is not bound by our constitution and Indian Laws. What is going on in India is something entirely different. Every Indian citizen enjoys some rights grated by the constitution irrespective of his caste. creed, religion, region, sex or langyage etc. Everybody is squal before the law. But the ground realities are entirely different. The societies are being polarised on religious basis and a revengeful attitude has been taken not only by people but by the government too. Recently Beef ban has been imposed in some states. Some Muslims have been brutally killed for keeping meat. Beef is cheaper than mutton and chicken anffordable to the poor especially the minorities whose Beef is a staple food. since we are the citizens, we have to abide the laws of the land even if those we dislike. We have a right to air our grievances but it is up to the decision makers and the judiciary to think over. We can only wait and watch.
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I am disappointed with this comment in churumuri of comparing an illegal act of denying housing to colored people ( I think even in the UK such racial discrimination is illegal) to the enforcing rule of law in UP (admittedly to promote one of the BJP planks of vegetarianism and protecting cow slaughter). If Churumuri wants to highlight the implied discrimination against those who are non-vegetarians by the UP CM, churumuri could have done it without having to hang on to the sordid practice of a racially influenced act in the UK. I am sure there are many other blatant violations of rule of law (worse than illegal meat shops), churumuri could have done research to point them rather than using this example.
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What’s wrong in what he is doing ? He is right – His property – his choice !
BTW – The “That’s us – Indians and Pakistani’s” – should also include “Indians, pakis, bangla’s nepalese and lankan’s” , no ?
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Wilson looks like a huge side of beef gone bad and mad.
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Ram, Ram, Hari, its the blatant racism that is objectionable. The curry business is a canard inasmuch as curry long ago became part of British cuisine and lent it some palatability. Wilson ain’t sayin’ nuthin’ ’bout eatin’ beef. You might want to know that the British referred to Indians as niggers centuries before they set foot in Africa. Wilson is repeating the white dogma: Keep the niggers out. By the way, if you happen to be visiting London, do not wander into the East End. Safety first.
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