Multiculturalism is an ideology that prefers to think of people as members of groups rather than individuals. It also rejects integration, which leads to separate communities living by their own rules within the same society. The logical result of this is that Islamic law is applied in Western nations, something that’s been happening with frightening regularity in the West lately. And according to this study, there is increasing support among young Muslims for Sharia law being implemented in Britain:
Young British Muslims are more likely than their elders to support Shari’a law and admire al-Qaida, but three-fifths of 16-to 24-year-olds say they have as much in common with non-Muslims as with Muslims, according to an opinion poll published on Monday.
The survey, entitled “Living Together Apart: British Muslims and the Paradox of Multiculturalism” and carried out by UK think tank Policy Exchange, found evidence that young Muslims held more fundamentalist beliefs on key social and political issues than those over age 55.
Forty percent of Muslims between aged 16 to 24 said they would prefer to live under Shari’a law in the UK, compared to only 17% of those over 55. Thirty-six percent of the younger group said a Muslim who converted to another religion should be “punished by death,” while only 19 percent of the older group agreed.
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“There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not,” she added.
Shahid Malik, a Labor member of Parliament who is a Muslim, said, “This report makes very disturbing reading and it vindicates the concern many of us have that we’re not doing enough to confront this issue.
“For years, I have argued that the [far right] British National Party is a white phenomenon which it is up to the white community to address.
Well, extremism exists in the name of Islam, and that’s something the Muslim community has to take leadership on. It’s my view that the mainstream umbrella Muslim organizations have not risen to the challenge and don’t accept the depth of the problem that’s facing them.”
