Almost every terrorist attack now is a reminder of the fact that we have been importing people who hate who we are, says Matt Goodwin

The alleged attacker – 35-year-old Jihad al-Shamie – entered the UK from Syria as a young child, before being granted British citizenship aged just 16. Many would argue he should never have been here in the first place. And he’s not the only one.

2021 Liverpool terrorist: Born in Iraq.

2021 Sir David Amess terrorist: Parents from Somalia.
2020 Reading terrorist: Born in Libya.
2020 Streatham terrorist: Parents from Sri Lanka.
2019 London Bridge terrorist: Parents from Pakistan.

2017 Manchester MEN terrorist: Libyan parents.
2015 Leytonstone terrorist: Born in Somalia.
2013 Lee Rigby/Woolwich terrorist: Parents Nigerian.
2007 London/Glasgow terrorists: Iraqi/Indian parents.
2005 supposedly "homegrown" 7/7 terrorists: Three had parents from Pakistan, while the fourth was born in Jamaica.

We cannot afford to continue ignoring the blindingly obvious pattern here. Why are these people in our country in the first place?

So many of the evil terror attacks we see on British shores are committed by first or second generation migrants – that much is clear. These attackers hate our country, hate what Britain stands for – and the Jewish community are the latest victims.

Who could be next?

Now, the Left would have you believe that anybody can become British, and anybody can become English, the moment they step into this country and get hold of a few papers.

But as the writer Garrett Jones argues in his book The Culture Transplant, what we have been doing in the UK and across the West is importing people from radically different cultures who retain the beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices from their home countries.

Isn’t this why we also had to deal with the grooming gang scandal in this country – because we imported masses of people from rural Pakistan where clan-based networks and the abuse of people who are non-Muslim is considered acceptable?

Sadly, this is now being compounded by our insane open borders policy. In the last week alone, over 2,000 illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel – more than 800 arrived within 24 hours last Saturday. We don’t know who they are. We don’t know where they’re from. And we don’t know what they believe. Why is the government doing this to their own people?

Almost every terrorist attack now is a reminder of the fact that we have been importing people who hate who we are and cling to totally different cultures, identities, and outlooks – all of which is making our own culture, identity, and social cohesion harder to maintain.

We can either keep ignoring this awkward reality, or we can do something about it – which would mean radically reshaping our country and its future around people who have deep roots and ties to this country, are genuinely integrating, calling time on mass immigration, doing whatever is required to fix our borders, and launching an all-out assault on Islamism in our society.

I’ve had enough of all this – haven’t you?