Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK
While 86% of Muslims feel a sense of belonging in the UK, pollsters warned of a "chasm" opening between Muslims and non-Muslims. Picture: Islamists at a protest in the UK (Photo: © Reuters)
“The integration of Muslims will probably be the hardest task” the UK has ever faced, according to the country's former Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman Trevor Phillips.
He made the comments about a new study conducted for Britain’s Channel 4 TV, analyzing What British Muslims Really Think.
The poll indicated that large numbers of Muslims, 86 percent, feel a strong sense of belonging towards Britain, while 88% think the UK is a good place for Muslims to live. On most things 78% say they would like to integrate.
However, there are key differences where sections of the Muslim community have very different and troubling views.
“On specific issues – families, sexuality, gender, attitudes towards Jews and on questions of violence and terrorism,” Phillips told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program, “the centre of gravity of British Muslim opinion is some distance away from the centre of gravity of everyone else’s opinion.”
Here are some of the more worrying find of the poll:
“The integration of Muslims will probably be the hardest task” the UK has ever faced, according to the country's former Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman Trevor Phillips.
He made the comments about a new study conducted for Britain’s Channel 4 TV, analyzing What British Muslims Really Think.
The poll indicated that large numbers of Muslims, 86 percent, feel a strong sense of belonging towards Britain, while 88% think the UK is a good place for Muslims to live. On most things 78% say they would like to integrate.
However, there are key differences where sections of the Muslim community have very different and troubling views.
“On specific issues – families, sexuality, gender, attitudes towards Jews and on questions of violence and terrorism,” Phillips told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program, “the centre of gravity of British Muslim opinion is some distance away from the centre of gravity of everyone else’s opinion.”
Here are some of the more worrying find of the poll:
- 23% support the introduction of sharia into Muslim areas of Britain.
- 39% agree “wives should always obey their husbands” (5% for the general population).
- 52% think homosexuality should be illegal, compared with 5% of the country as a whole. Only 18% of Muslims agree it should be legal.
- 47% believe it is unacceptable for a gay person to be a teacher (14% for the general population).
- 35% say Jews have too much power in Britain (5% of the general population)..."
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