Christianity in Britain Losing Ground to Islam, Secularism

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Someone posted an article that said:
...Muslims make up 50 percent of the residents in some British towns.
This is false.
The Evening Standard has no article stating such, well, not on their website anyway.

Here are the census results relating to Muslims:
...
Tower Hamlets had the highest proportion of Muslims at 34.5 per cent (over
7 times the England and Wales figure).
...
London was the most diverse region in terms of religious affiliation with over a fifth of the population
identifying with a religion other than Christian. London had the highest proportion of Muslims at 12.4
per cent , followed by the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber (both under 7 per cent ).
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London had the highest proportion of Muslims at 12.4
per cent
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London had the largest increase of Muslims (3.9 percentage points) and Hindus (1.0 percentage
point)
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[Christianity] was the largest
religion in all local authorities except Tower Hamlets where there were more people who identified as
Muslim.
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Muslims tended to be concentrated in particular areas of England. In over half of local authorities the
proportion of the population who were Muslim was under 1 per cent . In over three-quarters of areas
it was under 6 per cent.
The areas with the highest proportion of Muslims were in London with the boroughs of Tower
Hamlets and Newham having 34.5 per cent and 32.0 per cent respectively, and Redbridge and
Waltham Forest having proportions of the population higher than 20 per cent . There were several
areas outside London with proportions higher than 20 per cent including Blackburn with Darwen in
the North West (27.0 per cent ), Bradford in Yorkshire and the Humber, Luton in East of England,
Slough in South East, and Birmingham in the West Midlands.
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http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_290510.pdf


Merry Christmas though.:wave:
 
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I favor a Two State Solution: A Londonistani state, with London as its undivided capital. A bit more ambitious, but right in line with today's reasoning, would be including the M1 motorway and feeders in a "contiguous state" including also Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester and Luton. It's time for the Crusaders to stop their occupation of historic Al-Bion.

Interestingly London has the highest rates of church attendance!
 
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There are huge parts of Britain that don't even look British anymore. It has gotten out of hand.

Just out of curiosity, what would "in hand" look like?
 
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Interestingly London has the highest rates of church attendance!

In many ways Muslims and Hindus are more likely to be allies than enemies in the battle with an increasingly secular society. This whole Christianity in decline concept is bunkum as the census numbers wildly exaggerate the number of Christians in the country and the real number is pretty much constant. But the cultural change that they do indicate is the real problem. Within Christianity the conservative churches are the ones that are thriving and many Muslims and Hindus also hold socially conservative views on abortion and gay marriage for instance.

London is at the heart of the war between religion and secularism and it remains the powerhouse of the country.
 
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In many ways Muslims are Hindus are more likely to be allies than enemies in the battle with an increasingly secular society. This whole Christianity in decline concept is bunkum as the census numbers wildly exaggerate the number of Christians in the country and the real number is pretty much constant. But the cultural change that they do indicate is the real problem. Within Christianity the conservative churches are the ones that are thriving and many Muslims and Hindus also hold socially conservative views on abortion and gay marriage for instance.

London is at the heart of the war between religion and secularism and it remains the powerhouse of the country.

Yes - interesting points - many Northern towns will not be teaching Billy lives with John and Larry or having books like that in the libraries if councils and governors are mainly Muslim - its a bit of a paranoid fantasy to imagine some sort of active alliance between secularists and Muslims/Hindus etc aimed at extirpating Christianity - as patronising in a way as the inability of people like Peter Tatchell to understand why black and Asian groups are not automatic allies in the struggle against the establishment
 
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Christianity in Britain Losing Ground to Islam, Secularism


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Y'all are just now figuring this out?

It's probably partly due to the fact that everyone and their sister is having abortions right and left it seems, whereas the muslims are having 8, 9, even 10 kids in their marriage.
 
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Y'all are just now figuring this out?

It's probably partly due to the fact that everyone and their sister is having abortions right and left it seems, whereas the muslims are having 8, 9, even 10 kids in their marriage.

I don't know if abortion is that common - for some people it seems to go together with promiscuity coupled with being too thick to use contraception - whilst I don't overall agree with abortion one wonders at what sort of parents such people will be - the kind whose kids again are getting into the same loop at 14-15 themselves and repeat again
 
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Y'all are just now figuring this out?

It's probably partly due to the fact that everyone and their sister is having abortions right and left it seems, whereas the muslims are having 8, 9, even 10 kids in their marriage.

'Cept abortion rates in the UK are lower (slightly in England and Wales, considerably in Scotland and almost totally in Northern Ireland) than they are in the US.
 
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I don't know if abortion is that common - for some people it seems to go together with promiscuity coupled with being too thick to use contraception - whilst I don't overall agree with abortion one wonders at what sort of parents such people will be - the kind whose kids again are getting into the same loop at 14-15 themselves and repeat again

True. But the best and moral decision to make on discovering the pregnant person in question would not be a good mother would be to not kill your innocent child and choose to put it up for adoption for the parents longing for a child but can't conceive one of their own. ...Anyway! This thread isn't about abortion (my own fault), so let's move on and stay on topic.
 
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I wonder if Sharia Law Zones will ever become PC in the United States?
Or if we'll witness burka clad women marching with screaming Islamist men as they protest one of their own was seized on suspicion of terrorism? And the screaming chant will be; hands off Muslims!

No doubt there will be a liberal front in this country who will say, that's perfectly fine.

God save you Great Britain.
 
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I wonder if Sharia Law Zones will ever become PC in the United States?
Or if we'll witness burka clad women marching with screaming Islamist men as they protest one of their own was seized on suspicion of terrorism? And the screaming chant will be; hands off Muslims!

No doubt there will be a liberal front in this country who will say, that's perfectly fine.

God save you Great Britain.

The UK is quite fine on that ground without you mucking it up with your droll opinionated.I'm surprised this is even really news. The wackaloos have been spouting this nonsense for a while now.
 
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The UK is quite fine on that ground without you mucking it up with your droll opinionated.I'm surprised this is even really news. The wackaloos have been spouting this nonsense for a while now.
Yes, the UK looks just fine. Disarmed and Sharia-fied.
Perhaps you're just kidding when you claim to be in the UK.
Calling people names doesn't change the fact that even the news in GB is reporting on the Islamification of GB.

Nonsense is the last words said by those who are more than willing to inhale sand as their head goes under and their hind quarters are warmed by the sun.
What a tragedy. GB use to have guts.
 
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