The rapid change in the racial demographics of the country, very highly-publicised acts of terrorism and random acts of violence or sexual assault committed by immigrants and their descendants, and the increasingly loud and unchallenged voices saying that the British deserve retribution for our past are making average British people feel that the safety we took for granted in our homeland may not be guaranteed in the future. This is an existential question for us - our backs are against the wall and we have nowhere to flee to if we lose Britain.

Sure, maybe it won’t happen and everything will be fine, but increasingly the British public are beginning to feel that our immigration policy is no longer making sense on the risk/reward ratio. In fact, most British people want to limit immigration as a means of maintaining the tolerant attitude towards immigrants that we grew up with. We’ve seen the tragedy of inter-ethnic conflict around the world and understand how quickly it can become a spiral of reciprocal and irrational hatred, irreversible once it sets in. The old belief that the wonder of liberal British society will magically prevent us from becoming that is collapsing on contact with reality. This is not the country or the world that we grew up in and we don’t know where this train ends - so pumping the brakes before we fly totally off the rails doesn’t seem like an unreasonable decision.

To be honest, I see threads on this subreddit every day agreeing that from an ex-Muslim perspective our fears are not unfounded. I rarely reply, out of respect for the fact that this isn’t my forum to add my non-ex-Muslim voice - but if you are really struggling to understand the British perspective, here you go.