After years of colonial rule and faced with the onslaught of immigrants from Muslim countries, Britain is finally cracking. The once mighty empire is under pressure by Muslims born or living in the country to adopt Islamic laws as the basic guidelines for the Muslim communities there. This report will tell you more about the hearts and minds of the Muslims in Britain.

Lead author of the report, Munira Mirza, said: "The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s which
have emphasised difference at the expense of shared national identity and divided people
along ethnic, religious and cultural lines."

However, the report also indicates that the Muslims in Britain has their own views on several major issues:

Forty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain.

One in eight young Muslims said they admired groups such as al-Qa'eda that "are prepared to fight the West".

36 per cent of the young people questioned said they believed that a Muslim who converts to another religion should be "punished by death."

Three out of four young Muslims would prefer Muslim women to "choose to wear the veil or hijab"

Forty per cent of younger Muslims said they would want their children to attend an Islamic school,

58 per cent arguing that many of the world's problems are "a result of arrogant Western attitudes". However, knowledge of foreign affairs was sketchy, with only one in five knowing that Mahmoud Abbas was the Palestinian president.

The report also raises questions about the scale of the problems created by Islamophobia, with 84 per cent of those questioned saying they believed they had been "treated fairly" in Britain. The report suggests that there is no problem with Islamaphobia, and that it is simply the ethnic pressure groups who are using such false grievances propaganda solely as a way for political and economic gain.

The final two findings are also very revealing for what they reveal about British society and how the media distorts public perceptions for its own political reasons.

Another interesting fact is the finding that 84 % of the UK Muslim population believe they have been treated fairly in Britain.

However, several media outlets and some new political organizations as well as Non-Government Organizations (NGO) claimed the Muslims were ignorant, twisted in their views and were also not welcomed in Britain. This will be another story on World Futures soon.

The full report can be found here:

http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/libimages/246.pdf

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