The chickens are coming home to roost

In what could only be described, at best, as a rather dubious argument, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an inter-governmental body of fifty seven nations, has claimed that Europe needs Muslim immigration "to pay their pensions". In a statement made last December, OIC described "rising" migration from the Muslim world to Europe as a "win-win boom" because Europe was obliged to "rejuvenate itself".

The organisation's information and communications director, Maha Akeel, said that European political parties which opposed Muslim immigration were "lying to their own populations" and that the influx had proven to be a "roaring success." "The far-right's ambition to erect a Fortress Europe that shuts out migrants would doom continental economies to slow growth, stagnation, low productivity and low employment for decades to come," she said.

She claimed that Muslim immigrants to the UK between 2001 and 2011 had paid the government 22 billion pounds more than they took despite official figures showing that immigration to the UK had cost taxpayers there anywhere between 115 billion pounds and 160 billion pounds. Ms Akeel did not identify the source of her statistic.

Only recently, the Austrian Government has revealed that 90 per cent of asylum seekers end up on welfare benefits with the Interior Minister saying, "Our system is simply overwhelmed". The Norwegian Government has released a report showing that half of welfare beneficiaries are Muslim immigrants, despite comprising less than 17% of the population.

And, of course, the general UN line is that Europe should take every Muslim immigrant who turns up and if there are any problems, then it is the fault of the European governments themselves.

One classic recent illustration was the lecture by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) handed out to the cash-strapped Greek Government which is constantly teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, telling them that they should provide separate housing and washing facilities for women and children at refugee camps because of increasing sexual violence against them. Yes, it is the Greek Government's fault that Muslim men in the camps are attacking and raping Muslim women and children and they should stop it – "they", of course, means the Greek Government.

Again and again, public opinion polls across Europe show a growing resistance to Muslim immigration and a growing support for anti-immigrant political parties.

The most recent example released in January revealed that a staggering 84 per cent of Belgians likened the Muslim influx to an invasion, while 77 per cent "no longer feel at home as we did before" due to Muslim immigration. This came as a terrible shock to a pro-immigrant liberal newspaper and a taxpayer–funded public broadcaster RTBF which initiated it along with the This is Not a Crisis Foundation. Their views are predictably very much in favour of open borders.

It was an extensive survey and, obviously, nobody could claim that it provided predictable outcomes skewed by a right-wing, anti-immigrant bias.

In fact, RTBF bemoaned the obvious fact that Belgians were "increasingly xenophobic" adding, "The results raise many questions, but they revealed a society that is filled with fear and the rejection of otherness" and that researchers, "observed the development of a true anti-Muslim paranoia (among Belgians) which has taken on a pathological dimension."

Other findings included 74 per cent of people who thought that Islam was "not a tolerant religion", 70 per cent who believe that Muslims want to impose their way of life on everybody and 60 per cent who said that the presence of Muslims presented a threat to the nation's identity.

So, the bottom line is that most Belgians, apart from Muslims, are paranoid, intolerant and very probably neo-Nazi.

Presumably non-Muslims throughout Europe who hold these views are also the same breed of vile bigots.