Who is Enoch Powell and why do so may on YA claim he is right?

Question

Being American, most of us have very little knowledge of politcs in other countries. As a woman concerned with the survival of western Culture and history, I am closely watching the news about Islam in Europe. I can say, that our problem with Illegals fails to seem as important as your struggle with Muslims. I hope that readers will take notice of your problems, because the future of the planet depends on how Europe and England faces the issues and deals with them in a manner that is in the best interest of their culture and history. So, can anyone from the UK, FR, DL of anywhere else in Europe educate me and all the Americans here about the state of Islam in Europe? Thanks and peace to all.

Answer 1

Enoch Powell was a right-wing British politician and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. Controversial throughout his career, his tenure in senior office was brief; however, his skills as a polemicist and orator gained significant public support for his controversial views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration, and the United Kingdom's entry into the European Union, sparking national debates which continue to this day.
The mass immigration of Muslims to Europe was an unintended consequence of post-World War II guest-worker programs. Backed by friendly politicians and sympathetic judges, foreign workers, who were supposed to stay temporarily, benefited from family reunification programs and became permanent. Successive waves of immigrants formed a sea of descendants. Today, Muslims constitute the majority of immigrants in most western European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and the largest single component of the immigrant population in the United Kingdom. Exact numbers are hard to come by because Western censuses rarely ask respondents about their faith. But it is estimated that between 15 and 20 million Muslims now call Europe home and make up four to five percent of its total population. (Muslims in the United States probably do not exceed 3 million, accounting for less than two percent of the total population.) France has the largest proportion of Muslims (seven to ten percent of its total population), followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Given continued immigration and high Muslim fertility rates, the National Intelligence Council projects that Europe's Muslim population will double by 2025.
Unlike their U.S. counterparts, who entered a gigantic country built on immigration, most Muslim newcomers to western Europe started arriving only after World War II, crowding into small, culturally homogenous nations. Their influx was a new phenomenon for many host states and often unwelcome. Meanwhile, North African immigrants retained powerful attachments to their native cultures. So unlike American Muslims, who are geographically diffuse, ethnically fragmented, and generally well off, Europe's Muslims gather in bleak enclaves with their compatriots: Algerians in France, Moroccans in Spain, Turks in Germany, and Pakistanis in the United Kingdom.
The footprint of Muslim immigrants in Europe is already more visible than that of the Hispanic population in the United States. Unlike the jumble of nationalities that make up the American Latino community, the Muslims of western Europe are likely to be distinct, cohesive, and bitter. In Europe, host countries that never learned to integrate newcomers collide with immigrants exceptionally retentive of their ways, producing a variant of what the French scholar Olivier Roy calls "globalized Islam": militant Islamic resentment at Western dominance, anti-imperialism exalted by revivalism.

Answer 2

Enoch Powell brought immigrants from the West Indies into Britain to help fill the vacant jobs, which would also benifit the country. And the early immigrants did a good job. But after a few years he told his superiors to stop immigration because we had enough immigrants . They would not listen to him, and then came his speech about "The rivers of blood"
He was responsible for the 500 coming over on the Empire Windrush

By 1948, the Merseyside with over 8,000 Africans already had one of the oldest Afro-Caribbean communities in Britain. Added to this were some nearly 500 people arrived in Britain on board the Empire Windrush and over 100 Afro-Caribbeans also entered Britain on the S. S. Orbita. Most of these immigrants were placed in agricultural and iron industries as well as on railways. By 1950, there were over 30,000 coloured people in Britain, and 5,000 had migrated since 1945. Most of these subjects originated from West Africa and the West Indies. Post-World War Two, these immigrants were requested in Britain to help reconstruct the British economy. Industries such as British Rail, the National Health Service and London transport recruited almost exclusively from Jamaica and Barbados in the West Indies. Until the mid-1950’s the number of Afro-Caribbean’s coming over to Britain swelled due to increasing shortages in the labour force. Although in 1962 Britain passed the ‘Commonwealth Immigration Act’ restricting the entry of immigrants, by the 1970’s an entire generation of Britons with African heritage existed. Between 1951 and 1981 the number of British persons born in the West Indies had increased from 15,000 to 304,000.

Answer 3

Do a Google search on 'Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood Speech'.

Powell was a Conservative minister in the Edward Heath Government in the 1960's. He was fiercely anti-immigrant and made many prophesies about the dangers of unlimited immigration into the United Kingdom, notably in his famous 'Rivers of Blood' speech where he said that the cities of England would run with rivers of blood due to uncontrolled immigration. At the time he was pilloried and was sacked from his job by Heath but as he predicted many cities in England have now become over-run by immigrants. Cities such as Bradford, Leicester, Blackburn, and many parts of Birmingham, Manchester, London, Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Newcastle and Bristol are now mainly inhabited by immigrants and many riots have taken place. Along with some of these immigrants have come vast crime gangs like the Yardies in Birmingham who originated in the West Indies. Gun crime and drug dealing is rife and there have been many, many murders in these communities. Although 'racism' as a term hadn't been invented, Enoch was accused of that although he was against widespread immigration from anywhere not just coloured communities and many of his remarks were mis-interpreted. Sadly he was proven right in just about all he said. At the time Islam was not as big a threat as it is now and his remarks were mainly directed to widespread immigration from Africa, West Indies, Indian sub-continent, Pakistan and the far east. He also objected to european workers taking British jobs too, so colour was not his main objection, just the loss of British jobs to immigrants and the strain on the economy of all those coming to the U K to claim benefits rather than work. He did, of course, support those who had come through the proper channels and been accepted into the U K but this seems to have been overlooked.

Answer 4

im dont know a lot about the immigration policies of europe. if they have the same problems we have here with illegals that would be bad. i dont know who enoch powell is.