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Originally Posted by Charlotte
Certain tabloids are whipping up anti Muslim feelings in the UK, but if you look at the numbers in context it's all bullshit. Islam is the religion of less than 3% of the population, and it's roughly the same in France. It also doesn't take into account the amount who are actually practicing. Brits are not being 'outbred', nor are the French. Sure, Muslims may have more children, but the 'threat' has been totally over-exagerrated. Besides, most are peaceful, you do find Muslims in high-crime areas, but that's overwhelmingly to do with poverty rather than Islam.
As for Bardot: she's a known racist stirrer. An ex-advisor to the NF, who take great pleasure in whipping up hatred. Free speech isn't absolute, not in France, the UK or indeed the US. There are limits.
Tabloids in the UK have been complaining about immigrants for years now. The Daily Mail for instance did a scare-piece about Jews coming to the UK in the 30s. No mention of the fact that they were fleeing Hitler.
England is built on immigration. If all those with immigrant heritage were suddenly to leave the country would be left virtually empty. Does immigration change a culture? Sure it does, but it can change it in brilliant ways, enhancing it and making it stronger.
The UK is NOT being overrun, it is NOT going to disappear any time soon.
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Thank you and amen! Europe has always had periods of immigration from other countries and cultures, and in the end it has usually benefited us. My own country, Sweden, is an excellent example of that - we imported Vallons from present-day Belgium in the 17th century because they were highly skilled smiths and metalworkers, I have some of them in my ancestry. In the 1950's and 1960's Greeks and Italians came here to work in the booming industry, and they are a perfectly natural part of our society today, as are the many South Americans who fled from military regimes and dictatorships in the 1970's, Iranians from the revolution and Kurds from persecution in Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Of course there are problems initially, but as things stand we will be needing all these people in the coming years - and we can afford it.