It helps no one if we deny the problems caused by mass immigration - and it is causing problems. Denying problems exist makes the problem worse and delays the time when we look for solutions
But it needs to be looked at from both sides. Many of the problems arise because people coming to this country have come from a very different culture to ours and find adjustment difficult.
There is something called 'culture shock' that can hit anyone anywhere, when they move from one culture or country to one that is very very different. Many refugees and immigrants, do not choose to leave their own country, many are driven out by war, others by very high unemployment, even for universiy graduates, which means they have no alternative than look for work overseas and are forced to live in a country an culture very different to their own.
European governments should have foreseen the problems and done much more to help new immigrants understand the culture they are moving into.
What concerns me most is that the biggest problem seems to be the second generation, especially boys, those born here, to parents born elsewhere, or brought here as young children. They are the victims of the clash with a home culture that follows their own ethnic culture while living in a european country with a very different freer culture. I think the mental illness rate in this group is far higher than in other groups and these are groups most likely to be radicalised because it gives them a certainty they do not have pulled between home and Euopean cultures.
I think the Prevent programme, rather than only working with individuals who are referred to it, should be working at grass roots levels in schools helping children deal with and understand the stresses of a dual culture life, rather than wait until a catastrophe happens and then lock them up for life.
When I get 5 minutes, I'll do just that!!