It is propagated by some in the UK that the immigrant population has witnessed a phenomenal surge, threatening the demographic statistics. In reality, though, at the time of the 2021/22 census, 16 per cent of people in the UK had been born abroad – a total of around 10.7 million migrants out of the total population of 66.97 million.

Despite all claims of the far right that Muslims are dominating the country, only a tiny fraction is coming from a Muslim country. For instance, according to the 2021/22 census, an estimated 32 per cent of all foreign-born residents in the UK came from five countries – India (9.0 per cent), Poland (8.0 per cent), Pakistan (6.0 per cent), Romania (5.0 per cent), and Ireland (4.0 per cent).

Proponents of ultra-nationalism create much hue and cry over the migration of Muslims to Europe. For instance, Douglas Murray claims that during the middle of the 20th century, Muslims had negligible presence in Europe but at the turn of the 21st century Western Europe alone witnessed 15-17 million migration of Muslims, one of the fastest in human history. This seems to be a disputed claim because between 1815 and 1915, some 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States alone and in 1960 Europeans constituted 75 per cent of all US immigrants though this number drastically dwindled over the past decades.

In addition to that, millions of Europeans also migrated to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand besides settling in South and Central Americas. Given the fact that Brazil speaks Portuguese and the entire Latin America has adopted the Spanish language, this migration may have been the fastest in the world with great demographic impacts.

Numerically, Muslims are not in a position to change or transform European culture in any way. They are not financially very strong nor have they excelled in education. As of mid-2016, the estimated Muslim........

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