Race discrimination laws should be dropped and firms should be able to choose who they employ, Nigel Farage has said.
The UKIP leader said race discrimination by employers was no longer an issue but the main concern of people was Muslim immigrants who did not want to integrate and were an "especial problem".
Speaking in an interview with the former equalities chief Trevor Phillips, Mr Farage said the worries over discrimination by employers would have been valid 40 years ago but not now.
Mr Farage, who described UKIP as "colour blind", said: "I think the situation that we now have, where an employer is not allowed to choose between a British-born person and somebody from Poland, is a ludicrous state of affairs.
"I would argue that the law does need changing, and that if an employer wishes to choose, or you can use the word 'discriminate' if you want to, but wishes to choose to employ a British-born person, they should be allowed to do so."
Mr Farage said people were more worried there were Muslims who wanted to form a "fifth column and kill us" and that there had not previously been a group who wanted to "change who we are".
He said: "So don't be surprised if there isn't a slight increase in people's worries and concerns.
"You know, when you've got British, when you've got people, born and bred in Cardiff, with British passports, going out to fight for Isis, don't be surprised if there isn't an uptick in concern."
During the Channel 4 interview, he added: "There is an especial problem with some of the people who've come here and who are of the Muslim religion who don't want to become part of our culture.
"So there is no previous experience, in our history, of a migrant group that comes to Britain, that fundamentally wants to change who we are and what we are.
"That is, I think, above everything else, what people are really concerned about."
A Number 10 spokesman said: "Nigel Farage is wrong and desperate for attention. The laws are there to protect people from racial discrimination. It's deeply concerning he doesn't understand that."
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "This is one of the most shocking things I have ever heard from a mainstream politician and demonstrates breathtaking ignorance.
"We have made huge progress on tackling racial inequality and discrimination in this country, partly because of Labour's strong anti-discrimination laws, but things are still far from perfect."
In tweets today Mr Farage stressed he was championing the improvements in issues regarding race but added that Britons were sometimes now discriminated against.
He accused the media of a "wilful misinterpretation of what I said".
His tweet continued: "I'm talking Britons, whatever their heritage, being discriminated against in favour of EU migrants."
It comes as Gillian Duffy, who famously tackled Gordon Brown about the immigration issue during the 2010 election campaign, told Sky News she would be voting for Labour and not for UKIP.
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