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Below is a copy of an article from the Daily Express from 2008:

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SIR GULAM: WE NEED A 10-YEAR BAN ON MIGRANTS

Monday December 1,2008

By Alison Little, Deputy Political Editor

BRITAIN should shut its borders to all immigrants for up to 10 years to prevent racial unrest, a top Indian-born businessmen said yesterday.

High-profile Labour donor Sir Gulam Noon, known as the “curry king” because of his multi-million-pound ready meals empire, said a ban was needed to stop racist groups exploiting tensions.

“I strongly feel that whoever are the immigrants here, we’d better give them jobs and give them dignity to live here before we import some more,” Sir Gulam told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.

“I do not want a situation whereby a party like the BNP says, ‘Listen, all your jobs are being taken away by immigrants’. We have to be extremely careful.

“Some sort of a ban should be there,” said Sir Gulam, who last week survived the terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai by barricading himself into his suite.

Sir Gulam, 72, who came to the UK in 1966 with just £50 in his pocket, is understood to have said: “We should wait for five or 10 years, until all the newcomers have been properly integrated and assimilated into the country.

“Until then we should just shut the door. We can only accommodate so many. There is always a danger that for the sake of political correctness, or a party’s political advantage, we find ourselves filling up the country with too many immigrants who will disturb the balance and upset the people – particularly the young people – of the host community.”

He also warned: “You can’t just put hundreds of thousands of people on this small island. There is a limit.”

He believes that immigrants must learn English and schoolgirls should not wear veils. The moderate Muslim also called on Britain to be tougher on extremists, saying it was a “soft target because we are mollycoddling these people”, who then saw it as a sign of weakness. His message to extremists was: “If you don’t like this country, get out.”

A Home Office spokesman said in response to Sir Gulam’s comments: “People understand that migration can bring benefits but they also rightly demand that we have robust systems in place to control those coming here.

“Our new points-based immigration system is about getting only the right people and no more.

“It is a powerful set of controls, which allows us to raise and lower the bar depending on the needs of the labour market and the country as a whole. We will use those levers.”

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Following the London bombings in 2005, Sir Gulam Noon had told those Muslims who refuse to embrace British traditions to: ‘go back to whatever you regard as your home country and leave us in peace’. Sir Gulam Noon further pointed out that:

‘We are relative newcomers to a community with a long tradition of liberal democracy. If immigrants do not like that, the answer is simple. Get out.’

Sir Gulam Noon added:

‘I dearly want to see Muslims in my chosen country thriving as part of an integrated, intelligent, vibrant society. That means affirming our nationality as British but our religion as Muslim. It also means escaping our ghettos and assimilating fully into society.’

Gerald Howarth, a Tory MP, had made similar comments previously. In reference to the 3,000 odd Muslims who, according to the former police chief Lord Stevens, had undergone terrorist training, Mr Howarth said:

‘We can’t compromise with these people. Those who are brought up in this country – born, bred and educated in Britain, but despise everything we stand for, despise our values, loathe our country and do not show it any allegiance – I’m sure we are better off without them. Go and find somewhere else to live. I stand by that.

Quite clearly, we have got to try to work with this disaffected youth, but the ones for whom there is no compromise – if that’s their attitude, perhaps they should go and find another country where they would feel more at home.’

Mr Howarth’s comments provoked protests from all the usual quarters, although Sir Gulam Noon’s comments did not. One cannot imagine why. Recently, President Trump and his supporters have encountered similar protests for raising the same issues.

The problem then (and now) was far worse than had been acknowledged. The Home Office’s own figures had revealed that 26% of British Muslims felt no loyalty to Britain; 13% defended terrorism; and 1% were either involved in or supported terrorist activity both in the UK and abroad. Given that the Muslim population was then at least 1.6million, then 1% is 16,000.

It should not be the case that those who advocate, support, participate in and excuse terrorism have the option to leave, and that if they do not, then the host nation will just have to be killed and bombed regardless. Those immigrants who hate the host nation and are out to cause trouble, should be sent back to their own countries.