Bye Bye Britain
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1647
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2006-11-13 14:41
A quote from Roy Liddle in The Spectator, 11 November 2006
Apparently almost a million British citizens have left the country since 2000, to live somewhere else. Last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, 380,000 people left Britain, of whom about 200,000 were British citizens. At the same time, though, 565,000 immigrants arrived in Britain, the overwhelming majority from […] [Muslim] Pakistan and Bangladesh.
These facts were reported as if they were entirely unrelated. Nobody dared to venture that there was perhaps a very direct and causal relationship […] Even for our most free-thinking and dependable think-tank, Civitas, this was a bridge too far. Its spokesman, Robert Whelan, ventured that perhaps the parlous state of the [national] health service [NHS] was to blame for the exodus. You know, I suspect the majority of those who left had next to no contact with the NHS; they are, in the main, pre-middle-aged and healthy. No, it seems patently clear to me that an important reason […] that so many Brits are getting the hell out is that they think there are too many non-European foreigners here […]
That is a very interesting point. I wish I was intelligent enough to offer an explanation :-) All I can say is while there are some very dangerous Muslim fanatics in the West (who should be rooted out promptly), there are also many decent Muslims. For example,a Muslim community recently gave out 50,000 bottles of water for those affected by the floods in the UK.
Furthermore, the British have faced more sophisticated terrorist opponents in the past and perhaps view the current Muslim threat in proportion to this.