I don't think that bringing muslims in at the time was the major election issue. So one cannot infer that because the british people voted tory, they supported muslim immigration.
And let us for the sake of argument say that they did - I would say they were giving a new immigrant peoples the benefit of doubt. Previous immigrants had come and mixed in just fine. But now, after decades of muslim immigration and its failed results, we are wiser. Just because you made a mistake long ago does not mean you must stick to it.
I think the tube planters showed us once and for all the folly of expecting muslims to ever integrate into british society. If it didn't happen for kids who were born here, it is never going to happen. If you visit muslim ghettos in bradford or leeds, you will see that there has been NO percolation of british values into these ghettos. They live just like pakistanis would in their home country. Only difference is that if they fall ill, they have access to british healthcare, they drive fords-vauxhall-toyota-etc and they have the right to vote here, which they did not have in pakistan's military dictatorship. And guess what - they are not at all thankful to us for this. They still hate us with a vengeance because we sent "our" troops into "their" lands (Iraq). So my simple question is this - if they feel that way, they ought to leave and go to "their" land, namely, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan etc.
I have a big problem with muslims having this pan - national loyalty with other muslims who they have never seen, but not with their british neighbours and colleagues. And I dont think I am being unreasonable here - is it too much to ask for someone born here, availing of all its rights and facilities, to feel more kinship with british people than with some iraqi or palestinian?
- FD
