The ugly tribal-hatred politics of the Indian sub-continent have no place in modern Britain.

Yet, in Leicester, we have seen exactly that with the recent clashes between masked and balaclava-clad Muslim and Hindu gangs, some who had even gathered for the purpose from other cities.

This has included outsider extremists stirring up this sectarian hatred, such as Mohammed Hijab (as reported by the Telegraph) a 30-year-old Islamist preacher who also previously had been involved in anti-Jewish demonstrations in London. He has now been accused of “stirring up hatred” in Leicester, where attacks on Hindu temples and shops led to dozens of arrests.

Now the Daily Mail report that Race-hate cleric Anjem Choudary, from East London, has called for ‘Muslim patrols’ to be organised in Leicester. Choudary was jailed in 2016 for inviting support for Islamic State, and the United States Department of State has declared him a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

There have been dozens of arrests and over two-dozen police officers have been injured.

Large groups of UK residents from another country engaging in violence on our streets motivated by events in their country of origin is unacceptable. Decades of multiculturalism, sometimes rebranded as diversity, has resulted in parallel communities, an increasingly segregated United Kingdom, and a failure to adopt British values, causing further division. This has played into the anti-British, divisive hands of the likes of Mohammed Hijab and Anjem Choudary.

The UK Independence Party would reform British law and policy to replace multiculturalism and instead make assimilation into British culture the key objective of race relations.

We would also scrap the various schemes introduced under the Conservatives, which have contributed to huge increases in recent net migration – to allow the UK breathing space, with a period of population stability or reduction, following years of virtually uncontrolled mass immigration.

Steve Unwin

UK Independence Party - Spokesman on Home Affairs, Voting Reform and Local Government

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