15 Facts About British Muslims

1.

British Muslims wrote of his experiences and travels in his Persian book, .

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2.

In South Asia, specifically, the British Muslims ruled over one of the largest Muslim populations in the world.

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3.

British Muslims'storians writing in journals relating to the time period have asked whether the term is a "tyrannous construct" or an "alien conceptual hegemony".

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4.

British Muslims who hailed from Afghan, Turk, Persian, or Arab roots did not find their Muslim identities especially salient.

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5.

British Muslims Asians faced increased discrimination following Powell's Rivers of Blood speech and the establishment of the National Front in the late 1960s.

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6.

British Bangladeshi Muslims are mainly concentrated in London, Luton, Birmingham and Oldham.

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7.

Turks in the United Kingdom represent a unique community in the country because they have emigrated not only from the Republic of Turkey but from other former Ottoman regions; in fact, the majority of British Muslims Turks are Turkish Cypriots who migrated from the island of Cyprus from the British Muslims colonial period onwards.

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8.

At the time, the British Muslims Empire had already annexed Cyprus and the residents of Cyprus became subjects of the Crown.

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9.

British Muslims was known locally for his work advocating trade unionism and divorce law reform and persuaded more people in Liverpool to convert but they faced abuse from the wider society.

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10.

The majority of British Muslims mosques are Sunni, including Deobandi, Barelvis and Salafi.

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11.

The figures were, to some extent, explained by the fact that British Muslims were the least well-established group, having the youngest age profile.

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12.

British Muslims are playing an increasingly prominent role in political life.

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13.

Sayeeda Warsi, who was the first Muslim to serve in a British Muslims cabinet, was appointed by David Cameron in 2010 as a minister without portfolio.

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14.

British Muslims are represented in various media positions across different organisations.

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15.

On 18 May 2013, just as the bill to legalise same-sex marriages was being prepared to pass into law, over 400 leading British Muslims including head teachers and senior representatives of mosques across the country, published an open letter opposing the bill on the grounds that "Muslim parents will be robbed of their right to raise their children according to their beliefs, as homosexual relationships are taught as something normal to their primary-aged children".

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