British Muslims are more patriotic

[Gromit]

77% of Muslims say they “identified with the UK” compared with only 50%t of the public at large.
Muslims also outscored the general public for their belief in our courts, honest elections, financial institutions and the media.

The study by the Open Society Institute, funded by the financier and philanthropist George Soros, was conducted over two and a half years and involved 2,200 in-depth interviews and 60 focus groups in 11 cities across Europe with large Muslim communities.

In Britain, researchers focused on Leicester and Waltham Forest, east London, where they found that levels of patriotism were even higher among second-generation Muslims.

In Leicester, 72 per cent of Muslims born abroad said they felt British but 94 per cent of those born in Britain said the same.

“There has been a policy of trying to accommodate difference here and it appears to be paying off.”

http://www.telegraph....riotic-in-Europe.html

It is good to see the British way of doing things has triumphed again, isn't it?

[Gromit]

Express:
British Muslims are the most patriotic in Europe.
http://www.express.co...ay-UK-s-nicest-to-us-

The Times
Muslims in Britain are the most patriotic in Europe
http://www.timesonlin...uk/article6954571.ece

Daily Mail
more than three-quarters identifying themselves as British.
http://www.dailymail....etting-home-here.html

ahmskunnirt
Everyone else seems to understand that they are patriotic to Britain, not England.

[Gromit]

tonyted

//British muslims!
An oxymoron or what!?//

Is a British Jew an oxymoron?
Is a British Catholic an oxymoron?
Is a British Jahovah's Witness an oxymoron?

So why should a British Muslim be one?

[Gromit]

"you can't polish a t*rd."

Nice of you to finish on an openly racist remark.

[Gromit]

Tonyted,

You think Judiaism and Catholicism are the same creed?

Are you aware that Jesus is one of Islam's great phrophets?

[jno]

ahmskunnirt, I'm inviting you to distinguish between Pakistanis born in Pakistan and their children born in Britain. Saying 'just look at the crowd' doesn't answer that at all.

[sp1814]

ahmskunnirt

The football/cricket example is interesting, but gets overthrown by the Olympic example. British Jamaicans always seem to be cheering on the Brits, but if a Jamaican wins (say the 100 metres), there's pride there too.

[anotheoldgit]

Football, Cricket????????? It matters not.

As Harry Hill would say," there is only one way to settle this, FIGHT................"

If Britain was to go to war with Pakistan, see which side they would take, born in this country or not..