14 December 2009

Britain's tolerance to Islam results in more than 1m Muslims setting up home here

More than a million Muslims have migrated to Britain because it is more sympathetic towards Islam than other European countries, a study has found.

Latent Islamophobia in Europe means that many of those who move to the continent eventually end up in Britain, because it is seen as more tolerant. There are now some 1.1million Muslim immigrants in the UK, according to the report by IPPR, the Blairite think tank.

It means around 46 per cent of Britain's 2.4million-strong Muslim population were not born in this country. [MailOnline] Read more