10-15-2012, 10:25 AM
According to a poll of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at thirty universities throughout the UK conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), as reported ref B, 32 percent of Muslims on UK campuses believe killing in the name of religion is justified, 54 percent wanted a Muslim Party to represent their world view in Parliament, and 40 percent want Muslims in the UK to be under Sharia law. Only 2 percent of non-Muslims felt killing in the name of religion could be justified and none believed it was acceptable for Muslims in the UK to have a religious-based party, or to be under Sharia law. 73 percent of Muslim students are at least occasional participants in Friday services while only 2 percent of non-Muslim students attend any religious service. The poll results also found that 73 percent of Muslim students believe it is possible to be both Muslim and British and a similar number believe their parents are "much more or somewhat more" strict Muslims than they are. In addition only six percent believed that people who leave Islam for another religion should be "punished according to Sharia law" (killed).
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According to MWUK, arranged marriages in the Muslim community are creating unusually large population growth in areas where Muslims predominate, since first-generation families tend to have larger numbers of children (based on published research and a comparison of the 1991 and 2001 census). For example, in the eighties the Bradford (city) Council estimated that the Muslim population would reach 130,000 by 2030 and then level off. Now the projection is for 130,000 by 2020 and rising. Bradford is a West Yorkshire industrial city whose 2001 population of 294,000 included an estimated 75,000 Muslims (25%), predominantly of Pakistani origin. Bradford has the largest Muslim population in the UK outside of London, and no single London borough (neighborhood) has as large a Muslim population.
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Also according to MWUK, the number of marriageble-age Muslims in the South Asian community had jumped from 155,000 in 1991 to 236,000 in 2001. MWUK claims the majority of members of these communities seek spouses from overseas in arranged marriages. MWUK claims these figures point to a much larger Muslim population than HMG is reporting and is projecting. HMG says arranged marriages with South Asian partners, "are a normal facet of settlement figures."
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According to MWUK, arranged marriages in the Muslim community are creating unusually large population growth in areas where Muslims predominate, since first-generation families tend to have larger numbers of children (based on published research and a comparison of the 1991 and 2001 census). For example, in the eighties the Bradford (city) Council estimated that the Muslim population would reach 130,000 by 2030 and then level off. Now the projection is for 130,000 by 2020 and rising. Bradford is a West Yorkshire industrial city whose 2001 population of 294,000 included an estimated 75,000 Muslims (25%), predominantly of Pakistani origin. Bradford has the largest Muslim population in the UK outside of London, and no single London borough (neighborhood) has as large a Muslim population.
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Also according to MWUK, the number of marriageble-age Muslims in the South Asian community had jumped from 155,000 in 1991 to 236,000 in 2001. MWUK claims the majority of members of these communities seek spouses from overseas in arranged marriages. MWUK claims these figures point to a much larger Muslim population than HMG is reporting and is projecting. HMG says arranged marriages with South Asian partners, "are a normal facet of settlement figures."