Islam in the UK

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The Bait-ul-Futuh - mosque is one of the largest mosques in Europe.

The existence of Islam as a religion in the United Kingdom has been mentioned since 1707.

With the Trinitarian Act 1812, Islam was officially recognized as a religion in the United Kingdom.

In the 1950s, there was an influx of Muslims through migration from the former British colonies . Today Islam is the second largest religion in all four countries of the United Kingdom. The number of Muslims was estimated at around 3.2 million in 2010.

Due to the growing number of Muslims, over 1,500  mosques - mostly Sunni - have now been built. Most of the mosques were built by Muslims with South Asian roots - Pakistani and Bengal  - and others by Arabs , Turks and Somalis .

Development over the years

Salafist protesters calling themselves muhajirun are calling for Sharia law to be introduced in Britain

Between 2001 and 2009, Islam was the second fastest growing religion in the UK.

year Number of
Muslims		 Population of
England and Wales		 Muslims
(% of the population)		 Registered
mosques		 Muslims
per mosque
1961 50,000 46,196,000 0.11 7th 7143
1971 226,000 49,152,000 0.46 30th 7533
1981 553,000 49,634,000 1.11 149 3711
1991 950,000 51,099,000 1.86 443 2144
2001 1,600,000 52,042,000 3.07 614 2606
2010 2,869,000 62,369,000 4.60 1500 1912

Conversions

In 2001 the number of converts was around 61,000. Based on surveys in some London mosques, a study speculated that between 2001 and 2010 there would have been around 5,000 additional conversions annually, and the total would have reached 100,000.

distribution

The largest number of Muslims in the United Kingdom is in England and Wales , where about 1,536,000 of the total of 1,591,000 (96 percent) Muslims were lively in 2001. These made up about three percent of the population, with only about 42,000 (0.84 percent) in Scotland and about 1,900 (0.84 percent) in Northern Ireland .

The emergence of the English Defense League has led to numerous demonstrations in British cities with large numbers of Muslims.

media

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5621482.ece
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hindu, Muslim and Sikh populations ( XLS ; 22 kB) In: http://www.brin.ac.uk/figures . Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ How Many Muslims? British Religion in Numbers . brin.ac.uk. September 21, 2010. Archived from the original on April 7, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brin.ac.uk
  4. ↑ The Independent on January 4, 2011 in: The Islamification of Britain: record numbers embrace Muslim faith , last accessed on January 4, 2011
  5. ↑ http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/images/pdf_files/srpski/godina4_broj2/8%20chris%20allen%20vol.iv%20no.2.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.britsoccrim.org/volume10/2010_Garland_Treadwell.pdf