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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Even if that projection holds, 17.2% does not an electoral majority make, especially as 'Muslim' does not predict voting intentions, just 'Christian' doesn't.

Oh for God's sake. Do the projection; I've estimated a majority within 90 years. As to voting intentions, you are being naive.

There is a high take-up of the religion among children born to Muslim parents.

Family and home are where children learn to be Muslims. They are where the primary stage of socialisation takes place, in which they acquire and internalise cognitive and embodied knowledge, practices, skills, and traditions. This early stage of education may also be influenced by religious organisations and by minority-consciousness.

Muslims have in some respects been more successful than others in the UK at passing on their religious beliefs and practices from one generation to the next. Higher rates of intergenerational transmission have been found among Muslims than among Christians, those of other religions, and non-religious people.

Most Muslim children in the UK learn to read the Qur’an in Arabic, whether they do this at a daily mosque school, at the home of an independent teacher, in their own homes or even on Skype. In addition to the Qur’an and Arabic, many Muslim supplementary schools offer other aspects of Islamic Studies, as well as formal instruction in an ethnic language and culture.

https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resource...s-full-report/



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Originally Posted by ianch99

Sorry Seph, that really is the point. The point of this thread is that we do not want to talk honestly about the past and it is this past that is the direct cause of problem you are raising. If we hadn't invaded these lands, they wouldn't be here in the numbers you are complaining about. Mea culpa ..

I do agree, BTW, about the apostacy issue: a sinister belief found in the Wahhabi variant of Islam, mercifully not a mainstream movement here in the UK.

Where is the evidence of that? I'm no spring chicken but from history, reading, etc as a child, I was well aware of the British Empire, its activities and its transformation into independence for the countries we governed. I learned that Britain was the leading European country in abolishing slavery.

BLM has brought all this into the forefront and that movement is a bad egg.