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However, around 83% of Muslims are proud to be a British citizen, compared to 79% of the general public, 77% of Muslims strongly identify with Britain while only 50% of the wider population do, 86.4% of Muslims feel they belong in Britain, slightly more than the 85.9% of Christians, 82% of Muslims want to live in diverse and mixed ...
Muslims are bound by Sharia on personal matters, while members of other faiths follow civil law. Muslims are required to follow Sharia in family, property and religious matters. [144] In 1988, the constitution was amended to state that civil courts cannot hear matters that fall within the jurisdiction of Sharia courts. [145]
According to the 2011 census, 2.7 million Muslims lived in England and Wales, up by almost 1 million from the previous census, where they formed 5.0% of the general population [3] and 9.1% of children under the age of five. [4] According to the latest 2021 United Kingdom census, 3,801,186 Muslims live in England, or 6.7% of the population. The ...
Lebanese Muslims form the core of Australia's Muslim Arab population, particularly in Sydney where most Arabs in Australia live. Approximately 3.4% of Sydney's population are Muslim . Approximately 4.2% of residents in Greater Melbourne are Muslim, [ 121 ] and Sydney Road in Brunswick and Coburg is sometimes called 'Little Lebanon'.
Social disturbance began in the Muslim community in England in 1988 with the publication of the satirical novel The Satanic Verses in London. [citation needed] The book was condemned with a fatwa the following year. [3] In 1989, an Islamic Party of Britain was founded by a Sheffield-born convert. [citation needed]
Like him, I’m an Arab, Muslim and American — an amalgam of identities that conjures up “pariah” in the world we live in. But now, it means something different.
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Grants of settlement are made on the basis of various factors, including employment, family formation and reunification, and asylum (including to deal with backlogs of asylum cases). [5] Net migration into the UK during 2022 is reported to have reached a record high of 764,000, [6] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [7]