| Topic: | Mosque Application To be Considered by Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Ash Parks | |
| Date/Time: | 01/04/10 20:39:00 |
| It is of course possible we may disagree on some details, Alan, but I sense you have a fairly balanced view of the issues surrounding immigration. One can not blame an immigrant for taking advantage of the situation our government has created for him. Immigration has been very badly handled. Successive government has created the situation where many legal immigrants and people seeking asylum in the UK are treated inhumanely. They have allowed economic migration of a sort that does not benefit our society and economy, even allowing our own citizens, some of whom purport to represent us in parliament, to avoid paying taxes. It is inequitable. The problem this can create is that some people who consider themselves indigenous to the UK blame the immigrants, not government policy. Many react like frightened animals, every shadow or movement at their cave entrance is a threat to their comfort and wellbeing. It is the inhumanity and grossly disproportionate nature of these base reactions that disturbs me so greatly. It demonstrates that humans really are only a small step from reduction to brutality and savagery given certain conditions. I find some of the reaction to immigration issues deeply troubling. It is as though some people are incapable of basic research and rational thought. |