04 February 2011

WikiLeaks: Americans call Leicester 'the most conservative Islamic community in Europe'

“Girls as young as four years old were completely covered.

“At a local book store, texts… seemed designed to segregate Muslims from their wider community, urging women to cover themselves and remain in their homes, playing up the differences between Islam and other religions, seeking to isolate Muslims from community, and feeding hate of Jews to the young.”

What country do you think the Americans were talking about in their cables, just released by WikiLeaks? Afghanistan? Saudi? Pakistan?

Actually Leicester, motto Semper Eadem, “always the same”, which the US State Department’s senior adviser for Muslim engagement, Farah Pandith, said was home to “the most conservative Islamic community she had seen anywhere in Europe”. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more