Nigel Farage is right to talk about British Muslims

Nigel Farage claims that British Muslims are just as concerned, if not more, by the threat of Islamist extremism. The Reform leader said that ‘if you’re a Muslim family and the news is all about radical Islamists committing heinous acts, you’re going to think “wow, my neighbours may well be prejudiced against me because I’m Muslim’”. 

Farage is right: after all, wicked crimes committed by a sliver of British Muslims – especially Islamist terrorist attacks – have the potential to fan the flames of prejudice towards the entire group. Farage, whose political image is centred on being a straight-talker when compared to the technocratic creatures of the ‘establishment’, unusually called for a more nuanced conversation about the place of British Muslims in the UK. He argued that, while some may have different sympathies to the mainstream and are instinctively tribal, the majority ‘live peacefully’.

Farage claimed that British Muslims are growing by 75 per cent every ten years.