My view on this whole thing:
1) Adopt a similar immigration policy to Australia where people with needed skills are given priority and attaining a certain number of 'points' allows you in
2) Having said that, we do need cheap labour in the UK to do the jobs that
some people on benefits don't want to do as the difference that they would earn from doing such jobs is not 'enough' to make it worthwhile
3) The Geneva Convention will not allow us to turn away asylum seekers, however more should be done to fish out the genuine from the blaggers
4) Muslims are a minority in this country (I think about 4 million), representing about 2-3% of the population. According to the news this morning, there are about 1,500 known plotters (or about 0.04%) who would like to detonate bombs or whatever. Not all Muslims are bad, and many have integrated well. However, I agree that the Muslim community as a whole needs to do more to expose radicalism, rather than the 'head in the sand' routine that appears to be going on at the moment
5) Muslims in general get a bad press. How many items on the news or in the papers relate to the threat from Muslim extremists? Unfortunately, this situation is unlikely to change as long as moderate Muslims are exposed to radicalisation in Mosques around the country and the distorted views of what is essentially a peaceful religion is preached by extremists. Muslims need to police their own in this respect.
6) The BNP is receiving more support from society because society is incapable of having open, honest and frank discussions with itself over fundamental issues which will affect its future. There is a lot of mis-construed, mis-understood half truths on this particular post and this is representative of society at large.
7) I'm not claiming to know everything, but thought I'd share my considered opinions with you.
For the record, I'm white, non-religious and as British as the next man. Here ends the lecture