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Originally Posted by roadwolf
Xaccers.
How do you know that 4% of the population is muslim, What census has there been asking about religion?. What about the ones that are living here illegally?. You seem like the sort of person that would roll over and let your culture + country be taken away, while you sit there looking for stupid reasons why it should happen. Before you come out with anymore of your rubbish about the pagan period or the catholic period, don't forget our ancestors fought against this to make the country a better place, for people like you to live in and give away to all and sundry. This has been a predominantley Christian country for hundreds of years but when people ask what i am i say English, ask someone from the middle east and they reply Muslim. They do not identify with a country, only a religion, They are only going to be happy when every one in the UK is Muslim. Don't you think it's amazing that (by your estimate 4%) can have such an impact on on the way of life of the population of this country.
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The pagan and catholic periods certainly aren't rubbish, if you knew your own culture and history you'd know how they've impacted on culture since.
We wouldn't be the English we are today without that history.
The majority of England's populated past has been non-CoE if religion is your criteria (as it seems to be).
For over a hundred years we've been moving away from being a religious society to a secular one.
This is clear in our laws. In general society views someone's religious choice as personal, and people should not be compelled to adhere to one religion.
You're a christian and you want your religion to be top dog? Well unfortunately for you human nature doesn't work that way, humans get distracted from religion by other things, be they shiny gadgets or scientific evidence. Live with it. No one is saying you can't be a christian, it's your choice, and no one is saying you shouldn't be allowed to follow christian requirements (wearing a crucifix is not one of them incase that was about to come up - your religious ancesters should have thought of that when they decided what was to be included in the bible, complain to them).
The 2001 census puts the figure of muslims at just under 3%, with 7.3% of returns not stating their religion. So are you trying to suggest that all 7.3% are infact muslims who forgot to put that down on the census?
The ONS research states that in 2009 the muslim population was only 2.4 million, that means in 2009 they were outnumbered by 58.7million non-muslims.
So when someone asks you what you are, you reply English? I'd reply "What do you mean "what am I?" I'm a man, isn't that obvious?"
All your answer shows is you interpret the question as "What is your nationality?" rather than "What is your religion?"
As for those fools who believe they can one day turn England into an Islamic state, they're going to keep on being unhappy. The fools on the other side of the religious line, like yourself, who also believe muslims can one day turn England into an Islamc state need to take a reality check.