Should immigration into the UK from muslim countries be curbed?
916793
Not only Muslim countries, ALL immigration needs to be curbed!! The whole immigration system needs a good overhaul. Its common sense that as a small island, we cannot sustain the huge influxes of immigrants,no matter where they come from!!\nImmigration is now on an unprecedented scale. \n The pressure on our borders continues. Demand for visas has risen by 33% in 5 years and is now 2.5 million per year. The economic benefit from this inflow is very limited. Government arguments are fallacious. Immigration is not essential to our economic growth. It adds to economic growth but also adds nearly proportionately to our population so that the benefit to the host community is small. \nImmigrants will have little impact on our ability to pay pensions in future. The Turner Commission dismissed this argument for the simple reason that immigrants too will age and require pensions. Their financial input to the Exchequer is, despite government claims, approximately neutral. \nImmigration is welcome to many employers because it holds down pay levels, especially for the unskilled, and contributes to lower interest rates. It can also be a source of cheap skilled labour with no training costs. But it is the tax payer who picks up all the costs of the extra infrastructure required. \nTo the extent that immigration holds down wages it makes it more difficult for the government to achieve their stated aim of moving from welfare to work the 1.5 million unemployed and the 2.7 million on Incapacity Benefit. There are now one million young people in Britain who are neither in work nor in education. \nAre immigrants doing jobs the British will no longer do? No. In large parts of Britain where there are few, if any, immigrants British people are doing all these jobs. The fundamental problem is the benefits trap. Wages are held down to a level where for some there is little benefit in working rather than collecting benefits. Wages should be allowed to rise to make lower paid jobs worthwhile and to encourage productivity. Increasing productivity is the only way that a nation can become richer. \nThere is growing resentment among the native population of whom 70 – 80% wish to see a tougher immigration policy. They feel that their concerns are being ignored, or dismissed; only 10% feel that the government is listening to public opinion on immigration. The ethnic population is also concerned about the direction of events. A majority of them (55%) also wish to see tighter immigration control. A majority of the population (69%) feel that Britain is losing its own culture.
894089
No you can't, I agree with what you said 100%. \nIt's scary what's happening in europe, muslims are emigrating there in droves and they bring along with it all their hateful ideology, and if the time comes when they are asked to chose between their hateful clerics whims, or their country... They are gonna chose the hateful cleric.
772237
The government say that the muslims should integrate more with us, and then in the next breath say that they are going to have separate classes for muslims. This sends out the wrong message and should be stopped. This will be another lowering of standards as has happened to the police force. The next thing they will say they won't fight as they have to get on their prayer mats and pray, and the government will say it is their human rights and they won't have to fight, especially if it is against other muslims. This shower of shite that we call a government have got their snouts so deep in the trough, that they can't see what harm they are doing to this country and towards racial harmony.
752536
Yes I agree with you. Stop the Scots MPs voting on issues that do not effect Scotland or allow English MPs to vote in the Scottish Parliament on Scottish issues.
886554
Uhh....because this country was founded on people's right to do and be whatever they want.  Last time I looked "gays" were just as capable of being in the military as a heterosexual.  And as for Muslim's, I do believe we are allowed to practice whatever religion we so choose, kind of the reason we got away from England.  And not all Muslim's are extremists.
664989
Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches. \nThe rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become an important religious force in this country. "Within the next 20 years the number of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that brought the faith here", says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says: "Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality claims it as its own". Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America. \n\nThe surge in conversions to Islam has taken place despite the negative image of the faith in the Western press. Indeed, the pace of conversions has accelerated since publicity over the Salman Rushdie affair, the Gulf War[1] and the plight of the Muslims in Bosnia. It is even more ironic that most British converts should be women, given the widespread view in the west that Islam treats women poorly. In the United States, women converts outnumber men by four to one, and in Britain make up the bulk of the estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 converts, forming part of a Muslim community of 1 to 1.5 million. Many of Britains "New Muslims" are from middle-class backgrounds. They include Matthew Wilkinson, a former head boy of Eton who went on to Cambridge, and a son and daughter of Lord Justice Scott, the judge heading the arms-to-Iraq enquiry. \n\nA small scale survey by the Islamic Foundation in Leicester suggests that most converts are aged 30 to 50. Younger muslims point to many conversions among students and highlight the intellectual thrust of Islam. "Muhammad" said, "The light of Islam will rise in the West" and I think that is what is happening in our day" says Aliya Haeri, an American-born psychologist who converted 15 years ago. She is a consultant to the Zahra Trust, a charity publishing spiritual literature and is one of Britain's prominent Islamic speakers. She adds: "Western converts are coming to Islam with fresh eyes, without all the habits of the East, avoiding much of what is culturally wrong. The purest tradition is finding itself strongest in the West."[2] \n\nSome say the conversions are prompted by the rise of comparative religious education. The British media, offering what Muslims describe as a relentless bad press on all things Islamic, is also said to have helped. Westerners despairing of their own society - rising in crime, family breakdown, drugs and alcoholism[3] - have come to admire the discipline and security of Islam. Many converts are former Christians disillusioned by the uncertainty of the church and unhappy with the concept of the Trinity and deification of Jesus. \n\n\nQuest of the Convert - Why Change? \nOther converts describe a search for a religious identity. Many had previously been practising Christians but found intellectual satisfaction in Islam. "I was a theology student and it was the academic argument that led to my conversion." Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher and author, said she objected to the concept of the original sin: "Under Islam, the sins of the fathers aren't visited on the sons. The idea that God is not always forgiving is blasphemous to Muslims. \n\nMaimuna, 39, was raised as a High Anglican and confirmed at 15 at the peak of her religious devotion. "I was entranced by the ritual of the High Church and thought about taking the veil." Her crisis came when a prayer was not answered. She slammed the door on visiting vicars but travelled to convents for discussions with nuns. "My belief came back stronger, but not for the Church, the institution or the dogma." She researched every Christian denomination, plus Judaism, Buddhism and Krishna Consciousnes
967845
My gut reaction was of course we should, but then to be honest, I'm tired of having to pussy foot around the religious sensibilities of others, I really believe that if someone cannot tolerate the tradition of free speech in this country then they really should not have come here. I am especially annoyed by those people that flee to Britain because they are persecuted in their own country then they try to force their own intolerant attitudes on us.
864597
Many groups self-segregate. Multiculturalism proposed that all cultures are equal, so immigrants were under no obligation to assimilate. I think all immigrants should have to sign an explicit contract as a condition of entry agreeing to support the dominant culture, to abide by its rules, to encourage their children to join the police or army, etc. If, say a Brit settles temporarily in Saudi Arabia, there may be a case for living in an alcoholic ghetto, but if they wish to reside permanently then they need to sign up for an Islamic dress code, public executions, etc.
574526
We should let them know that if non-Muslims have to wear badges in a Muslim country, then we and all other non-Muslim countries will make the Muslims in the non-Muslim countries also wear badges of the same size and color as required in the Muslim countries. Then we should put pressure on the rest of the world to pass that law in their country.
373036
No. We only need to stop immigrants from coming here ILLEGALLY. That means across the board, no double(racist) standards specifically favoring those of the Mexican race. \n\nIf you're an illegal Asian immigrant, deported. \n\nIf you're an illegal African immigrant, deported. \n\nIf you're an illegal European immigrant, deported. \n\nIf you're an illegal Australian immigrant, deported. \n\nIf you're an illegal South American immigrant, deported. \n\nIf you're an illegal Canadian immigrant, deported. \n\nAnd, last but not least, if you're an illegal MEXICAN immigrant, deported. \n\nSee how that works? How fairly it works? If you break the law you suffer the consequences. Regardless of race. That's the ONLY moral way to enforce the law. \n\nLet's not give Mexicans any special treatment mearly because they are Mexican. That my friends, is discrimination. Against every non-Mexican in the world.
630056
Protect your country and your British identity.  I have visited your beautiful country and I fell in love on my first visit.  I don't know enough about your govt. policies but I have seen on the BBC world news and websites that you are having problems with radical Muslim groups.  I think that every country has a right to control its borders and let in who they want.  The west is losing it's identity.  If immigrants are leaving their countries to find a better life in the US, UK, FR ... then they must make an effort to integrate fully into the culture in which they are moving to.  I hope that our nations say enough is enough.  good luck.
86371
I think yes.  I think muslims should be profiled over other nationalities since they are the ones committing the terrorists act.
900078
The little I know is, the British politician mentioned that he could not relate well to his constituent who went to see him wearing hijab as the masking of the face hampers communications. \nAs for banning, I only read about Dutch, as a country is considering banning.  A couple of their citizen was brutally murdered reportedly due to these citizen's portrail of matters related to Islam and Muslim.\n\nAs to the comment of free mind, unfortunately, it is now a tradeoff of perceived and real danger from people who insists on wearing hijab in a country that felt increasingly threatened.\nWhat would you do?
1106625
Yes, it needs to be stopped.  If people want to come to America and bring their culture that is fine as long as they don't expect their new country to change go out of its way for them.  Become bi-cultural, join the new one but also preserve yours.  And come legally
768974
No country is completely tolerant, but the British make a conscious effort to be so, it is part of their heritage. Just try to bait them with some fool question here on YA and you will hardly get a peep out of them. I know, I've tried!
553638
I believe it was due ot religious intolerance - they wished to be able to practise their own religion freely, which they were not permitted to do in England.
822035
many muslims come to UK from the middle-east for transplants. Privately of course. Whether it's for quality care or avoidance of religious taboo, I can't say. We all want to survive.