MUSLIMS
ARE CREATING ‘NATIONS WITHIN NATIONS’ SAYS FORMER HEAD OF U.K.
EQUALITIES COMMISSION
BY LUCY
CLARKE-BILLINGS ON 4/11/16 AT 9:48 AM
The former head of
Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor
Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” regarding
immigration in a new report, claiming Muslims are creating “nations
within nations” in the West.
Phillips says
followers of Islam hold very different values from the rest of
society and many want to lead separate lives.
The former head of
the U.K.’s equalities watchdog also advocates the monitoring of
ethnic minority populations on housing estates to stop them becoming
“ghetto villages.”
He says schools may
have to consider a 50 per cent limit on Muslim, or other minority
pupils, to encourage social integration.
And he says
disturbing survey findings point to a growing chasm between the
attitudes of many British Muslims and their compatriots.
Phillips’
intervention comes after he was asked to analyse the findings of a
major survey on Muslim attitudes in the U.K., which will form the
basis of Channel 4’s documentary, What British Muslims Really
Think, which is due to air on Wednesday night.
An ICM poll released
to the Times, in Britain, 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
The documentary will
portray the U.K.’s Muslims as a “nation within a nation” that
has its own geography and values.
Phillips
commissioned a 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 of Islam or Muslims.
“It’s not as
though we couldn’t have seen this coming. But we’ve repeatedly
failed to spot the warning signs,” he now writes in The Times , in
response to new data collected.
“Twenty years ago…
I published the report titled Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All,
we thought that the real risk of the arrival of new communities was
discrimination against Muslims.
“Our 1996 survey
of recent incidents showed that there was plenty of it around. But we
got almost everything else wrong.”
In an article for
the Daily Mail, Phillips warns of a “life-and-death struggle for
the soul of British Islam.”
“Britain is in
many ways a better place than it’s ever been—more prosperous,
more diverse, more liberal.
“But for some of
our fellow citizens, we’re heading in entirely the wrong direction.
So much so that some of them would rather live under a wholly
different system.
“Indeed, a
significant minority of Britain’s three million Muslims consider us
a nation of such low morals that they would rather live more
separately from their non-Muslim countrymen, preferably under sharia
law.
“This sobering
conclusion comes from the most comprehensive survey of British
Muslims ever conducted, commissioned by Channel 4.
“Having been asked
to examine its results, I believe it holds a grim message for all of
us.
“There is a
life-and-death struggle for the soul of British Islam—and this is
not a battle that the rest of us can afford to sit out. We need to
take sides.”
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