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http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...lend-britains-diverse-landscape-known-better/

UK Equalities Chief Who Popularised The Term ‘Islamophobia’ Admits: ‘I Thought Muslims Would Blend into Britain… I Should Have Known Better’

The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating “nations within nations” in the West.

Phillips, a former elected member of the Labour Party who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012 will present “What British Muslims Really Think” on Channel 4 on Wednesday. An ICM poll released to the Times ahead of the broadcast reveals:

One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;

39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband;

31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife;

52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal;

23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.

Writing in the Times on the issue, Phillips admits: “Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else… Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn’t how it is.”
Phillips commissioned “the Runnymede report” into Britain and Islamophobia in 1997 which, according to both Phillips himself and academics across the country, popularised the phrase which has now become synonymous with any criticism – legitimate or not – of Islam or Muslims.
Durham University’s Anthropology Journal noted in 2007: “It has been a decade since the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia was established, a Commission that through its 1997 report, “Islamophobia: a challenge for us all” (“the Runnymede report”) not only raised an awareness of the growing reality of anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic hostility in Britain, but also marked the onset of what might be described as ‘the first decade of Islamophobia’. In doing so, the Runnymede report propelled the word ‘Islamophobia’ into the everyday common parlance and discourses of both the public and political spaces.”
Phillips says his new data shows “a chasm” opening between Muslims and non-Muslims on fundamental issues such as marriage, relations between men and women, schooling, freedom of expression and even the validity of violence in defence of religion. He notes – echoing an article on Breitbart London just two weeks ago which reveals a growing disparity between older and younger Muslims in Britain – that “the gaps between Muslim and non-Muslim youngsters are nearly as large as those between their elders”.

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Thanks for that article Ben. It does highlight some very legitimate problems/issues.

Being ever an optimist I drew on the following from the quoted statistics
which on the surface are quite worrying. However, I guess the positives
are:

-that while One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house could that mean that four out five Muslims do;

-39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband. Does that mean 61% of Muslim’s don’t believe in that.

-31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife. I guess the implications of that statistic is that 69% don’t believe in that practice.

-52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal; I would have thought even more would be against given the teachings they put forward. 48% don’t agree and that means some Muslims are challenging hardline beliefs. Good to see.

-23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament. This infers that 77% of Muslims don’t support Sharia law that is pushed down their throats by the fundamentalist clerics.

Given that for other than the gay issue there are majorities that take a more liberal approach and even on the gay issue there are nearly half that want legality there is scope that over time the fundamentalist view will be overtaken in even greater numbers by those with a more moderate application of Islam. At least thats what I hope as would any thinking person.

cheers