As an aside, I'm mostly right wing in my views. I'm for greater immigration controls and a lot of other stuff but this travesty was carried out by a 52 year old Brit who wasn't on anyone's watch list.
Not quite. "Was he on MI5's radar?
He was known to the authorities and had come under the radar of MI5 some years ago as a "peripheral" figure in a terrorism investigation, Theresa May told MPs on Thursday."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/khalid-masood-everything-know-london-attacker/
The guy had a violent past, converted to Islam in 2005, became a mass murderer 12 years later. He was not under active investigation at the time of the attack, that much is true, but the guy is basically the template for somebody who is going to go nuts and murder.
Whether we like it or not we are a multi- cultural society. It's part of the British Empire's heritage and history. I personally know far too many British Asians to tar everyone with the same brush. We just have to get smarter about protecting ourselves.
Multi-cultural has nothing to do with this. The issue is that far too many members of one culture - Islam - believe that other cultures - Western, Christian, Jewish, pretty much all others - are beneath them and not deserving of respect. More to the point, far too many members of the Islam faith believe that women who show their legs and cleavage are asking to be raped, that non-Muslims are the enemy and their lives have little value until they convert to Islam. The incidences of violence, and murder, and rape in Western Europe are undeniable.
Also, immigrants in Western Europe from Somolia and Yeman and Syria do not integrate. They have set up their own neighborhoods, many of which are off limits to "foreigners" - that is, the actual natives.
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The study, named “immigrant worlds in Germany 2016,” looks at migrants within the major cities and municipalities of the country shows that many migrant groups are choosing to isolate themselves rather than establish links with those of other backgrounds. Bernd Hallenberg, who works for the VHW, said, “The migrant milieus are developing apart,” noting that many migrant communities retreat into themselves on a social and cultural level.
The study shows a trend of migrants, who once saw themselves as Germans, identifying more with the ethnic and cultural background of their origin. A similar study was carried out in 2008 by the VHW that when compared to the current study shows a large shift toward isolation, rather than integration."
2016, Die Welt.
When immigrants flooded the United States in the 19th century, they did what immigrants always do - grouped together. That is why New York had its Italian neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods, etc. However, those immigrants did not view themselves as still Italians first, or Irish first - they were Americans. Within a generation, these immigrants and their children were part of the United States, and viewed this country as their own.
That is not happening with a very large percentage of Islam immigrants to Western Europe, who instead are isolated, closed off from the nations they have moved to, and who exhibit stronger allegiance to their native countries than to their new home.
