Quote Originally Posted by doc_bean
Okay, most immigrants we have problems with. There's still a big wave of immigration from Russia, former soviet countries and the Balkan countries going on, but aside from organized crime I've heard few people complaining about them. The issue mainly seems to be about muslim immigrants, at least for now.
Well then I think "the issue" is very confused.

Questions over social housing, foreign language and criminality (the three issues mentioned by the New Labour politicians) should not be discussed as if the problem was specific to Muslim immigrants. That might be how some natives perceive the problem, but it is not what any objective statistics will tell you.

In the UK, "issues" with Muslims in particular are probably best discussed without reference to immigration (and indeed housing, language and probably crime). In the UK, many (maybe half or more) Muslims are second and third generation so when it comes to worries about Islamic terrorism, it is quite unhelpful to describe them as immigrants.

I rather fear "Muslim" now plays a similar role in UK (and maybe Euro) immigration debates to what the word "black" played when Enoch Powell was stirring up the issue. It speaks to prejudices rather than facts.