Labour Supporting Think Tank Confirms: Immigration Is Islamifying Britain
The Labour Party-supporting Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has confirmed what the British National Party has been saying all along, namely that immigration is steadily Islamifying Britain.
According to a new report issued by the IPPR called “Faith, Migration and Integration in the UK”, continued Third World immigration is effectively bringing waves of Islamics into this country.
The study found that Britain is home to 1.1 million new Muslim immigrants who have come here because this country is “more sympathetic towards Islam than other European countries.”
“Migration has caused an increase in the proportions of the population affiliated to non-Christian faiths,” the report said.
“Recent migration trends are altering the faith map of the UK. Their biggest impact is being felt in some of our largest cities, London above all, where a rich mosaic of different faith communities has come into being,” the IPPR report said.
Third World immigration has also increased the numbers of African Pentecostals in Britain, the report continued.
For example, in Lewisham there are 65 Pentecostal churches serving the Nigerian community and others serving the Congolese, Ghanaian and Ivorian communities.
The IPPR also said that 4.5 million of the UK’s foreign-born residents and UK Visa holders claim to have a religious affiliation.
Of these, around a quarter are Muslim while the rest are made up of Polish Catholics and African Pentecostals, the latter of which it identified as one of the fastest-growing groups.
“Perhaps the most significant change has been the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity within migrant populations, particularly those from Africa and Latin America,” the report said.
The report did not say if these figures are in addition to the numbers provided by the 2001 census, which is almost certainly badly out of date. According to those figures, there were 1,591,000 Muslims living in Britain in 2000. 1,536,015 were living in England and Wales; 42,557 were living in Scotland; and 1,943 were living in Northern Ireland.
If these IPPR figures are in addition to the 2001 census figures, it will mean that the Muslim population is effectively doubling every seven or eight years.
Apart from the already established Sharia law courts across the country, the Treasury plans to rewrite Britain’s tax rules to usher in a new wave of Sharia law for Britain’s financial system, according to a one-line sentence buried in the recently released pre-Budget report.
According to reports, the Government wants to tap into the fast-growing Sharia finance market, set to top £205 billion a year, and turn London into the “global gateway for Islamic finance.”
Many conventional financial products are not Sharia compliant because Muslim clerics view conventional loans, which involve interest payments, as sinful.
The UK Government was one of the first Western countries to issue a state-backed sukuk, an Islamic bond. It now wants to rewrite tax laws to stop Muslim businessmen being unfairly taxed when they try to raise money on their companies.
Conventional loans allow them to take equity out of their business, using the property as collateral, but to be Sharia compliant a Muslim “sells” the business to the bank and then rents it back. That leaves the businessman facing a bill for capital gains tax and the Treasury wants to level the tax playing field.
The pre-Budget report includes measures to equalise the tax treatment of property refinancing transactions. Ministers are also reportedly considering issuing Government bonds to Islamic banks to help them comply with new financial regulations.
