&gt; <i>The establishment left in Europe, from what I can see, is lying about the problems of Muslim immigrants and crime&#x2F;other social problems.</i><p>Could you quantify how severe you see those problems as being, how they&#x27;re lied about, and what sort of solution you think might be possible?<p>My impression (as a leftish European, so discount it as you please) is that no one denies that some Muslim immigrants commit crimes, nor indeed that some Muslim immigrants are terrorists, but that the usual lefty view is:<p>1. This, in itself, no more calls for action against Muslim immigrants (or against Muslim immigration) than the fact that some people with beards commit crimes calls for action against people with beards.<p>2. Overreaction to fear of Muslim immigrants is a bigger problem than crime committed by Muslim immigrants. (E.g., crimes with Muslim <i>victims</i> are commoner than crimes with Muslim <i>perpetrators</i>, and this sort of fear is one reason why.)<p>3. Accordingly, asking &quot;what can we do to stop unassimilated Muslim immigrants killing and raping and robbing?&quot; is a bad question in the following senses: (a) if it&#x27;s the main question you&#x27;re asking about relations between Muslim immigrants and the rest of the population, that probably means you have an unbalanced view of what&#x27;s going on, and (b) asking it loudly and publicly is liable to do more harm by encouraging anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry than it does good by promoting measures that reduce crime by Muslim immigrants, and (c) actually taking the measures one might come up with when answering the questions is also liable to do more harm by making Muslims&#x27; lives harder than it does good by reducing crime.<p>A few notes. First: I don&#x27;t know whether the parenthesis in #2 is actually correct. My impression is that it is, but I don&#x27;t have all the statistics that would be needed to check. Regardless, I would guess that most of the lefty types you have in mind share my impression that it&#x27;s correct. Second: something can be a bad question as in #3 but still be a question it would be good, in principle and all else being equal, to know a good answer to.<p>Third: appreciating the European-lefty mindset on this may be easier if you try replacing &quot;what can we do about violent crime by Muslim immigrants?&quot; with &quot;what can we do about financial malfeasance by The One Percent?&quot; or &quot;what can we do about computer crime committed by evil hackers?&quot;. In all these cases, there are some actual crimes (and not-actually-criminal wrongdoings) that we&#x27;d be better without. In all these cases, people unsympathetic to the group being targetted are liable to overestimate the actual magnitude of the threat, and there are unscrupulous journalists and politicians stirring up fear to further their own agendas. In all these cases, trying to prevent those crimes and other wrongdoings runs the risk of messing with people&#x27;s civil liberties. (But, for the avoidance of doubt, I am not claiming that these cases are parallel in every respect.)