Muslims will make up roughly eight per cent of Britain’s population by 2030. However, the distribution of the Islamic population will not, of course, be spread evenly across the country: the concentration will be greater in urban areas, then as now. Bradford and Birmingham contain more Muslims than other large British cities, and their numbers help to indicate developments to come – 32 per cent and 27 per cent respectively.
In summary, Islam is already Britain’s second-largest religion. This position will grow more entrenched. It will surely be the most practiced religion in some of our major cities within 15 years…and there are at present only 12 Muslim faith schools in Britain.
[A COMMENT] No faith schools. Full stop.
[ANOTHER] I'm not a Christian but this country's heritage is Christian and it seems perfectly right to me that there should continue to be Christian schools for those that want them.
Muslim schools are a different matter, since no-one I know was ever consulted about the imposition of a huge Muslim population whose values are very often un-English even where these are not positively antithetical to our own.
Would-be Muslim conquerors were beaten out of Europe many centuries ago, yet our leaders are letting them in again. It's wicked and insane.
[ANOTHER] Firstly, the schools in question are not faith schools; they are secular state schools that have been infiltrated by Muslim extremists.
Schools run by the C of E, the Catholics and most of the Jewish establishments have no difficulty in combining a proper education with a religious ethos. There is only one religion that is posing this problem
We must stop, in this country, punishing the many for the transgressions of the few. The root cause of this problem was cowardice on the part of Birmingham City Council. [ConservativeHome] Read more
