Why do you hardly ever see muslims doing hard manual work or playing physical sports such as rugby or football?

[dave50]

I'm not being racist, it's just an observation and I wondered if anyone else had noticed and what the reason was.

[Duncer]

"Duncer, come here and be slapped, please"

With pleasure.

[Minotaur3]

Haven't you watch the Pakistan XI in test matches???

[emmie]

not lately..

[Duncer]

I'll side with dave50 here, insofar as cricket is neither hard labour nor a contact sport.

Sorry dave50, that's as far as I'll go on that one though.

[FredPuli43]

You might as well ask why you don't see white British doing manual work! Well,you don't in this area if you visit the vegetable growers. The hard work is all being done by Eastern Europeans because the native locals don't want to do it. The same applies to a large degree in other industries such as the hotel trade.

Why were so many "Asians", all Muslims, brought into Northern towns such as Bradford? Was it not because they were wanted to work in the textile industry? And was that because locals did not want to do the arduous work? Whatever the reason, the immigrant labour did that work.

There are plenty of Muslims still doing manual labour. The OP must be living in an area with few Muslims.

Rugby is not parr of the culture of the country they or their ancestors came from. Frankly, rugby union isn't part of the "culture" of most non-Muslims here. It is if you went to a rugby playing school as e.g. in Wales, where it is an important part of sporting life.