I was intrigued to read the interview with Bader Zina (‘Lighting up a dark room’, The Sunday Times of Malta, January 24). A lot of the points raised are perfectly true. Problems arise when you get two more generations ahead, as is being experienced in the UK right now.
Young Muslims are disenfranchised with the UK’s laws; they openly burn the British flag and say the English cross of St George ‘offends’ them.
Remembrance wreaths have been burnt at war memorials because the poppy ‘offends’ them.
Returning troops from conflicts in war zones that parade through their home towns are verbally abused because their uniform ‘offends’ them. Women wearing short skirts are abused because their attire ‘offends’ them.
People of my generation (I am 61) born in the UK will remember Conservative politician Enoch Powell saying in the 1960s that if immigration numbers were not kept in tight control the country would suffer. How right he was, although at the time he was ridiculed.
There are many cities in the UK where there are vast ‘no-go’ areas if you are of white skin. In fact, it is like reverse racism, and it has got so bad that many families like mine have had enough and left the country.
This all started with the desire for a mosque to pray in wherever there was a Muslim community. In fact, in Derby, where I hail from, houses were turned into mosques, and the same thing has happened in Leicester, Nottingham and Bradford.
There is even a massive mosque in The Gorbals, Glasgow, which was a predominantly Catholic community. I would ask the government to take this into consideration as a small island like Malta would soon go down the same road as the UK, but in a quicker time.
Before anyone starts ranting that I am a racist, I have many Muslim friends who I served with in the submarine service for 23 years, but as I stated earlier, it is the younger gene - rations who are now turning on the people that took them in.