The number of Muslim
converts in
The figure has almost
doubled in ten years – with the average convert now a 27-year-old white woman
fed up with British consumerism and immorality.
The numbers, revealed in a study
by multi-faith (Muslim) group Faith
Matters, have
led to claims that the country is
undergoing a process of ‘Islamification’.
The survey of converts revealed nearly
two thirds were women, more than 70 per cent were white and the average age at
conversion was just 27.
White unmarried woman, aged 27. We perceive the reasons behind these unsettling
statistics. First and foremost these
women view themselves as leftovers and old maids with their ovary clocks
running. Seeing the majority of their
friends having already been married (Between 16-26) and are will into the
process or have already completed their families these women are highly motivated
by their unhappiness and unfulfillment. Anther
reason people will like even less: These
woman are attracted to the Muslim Bad Boy Image. These Muslim men on the
streets talking to them are young, foreign which these women find
exciting if not arousing. To marry Muslim
men is an act of rebellion and spite and against both their families
traditions which brought them nothing and British society which they feel
failed them in any number of ways. And
finally this is an imagined act of their kicking against their former
boyfriends and mediocre prospects.
The survey organisation’s report argued that most converts saw their (Empty experience of) religion as ‘perfectly compatible’ (With anything other religion) with living in
We feel here to repeat what we were told by a British
Pentecostal woman. She was single about
the same age as these other women when a young handsome and wealthy Muslim male
began to pay her attention. Against
family, against her
I spoke to this distraught woman on a Christian website
where she was seeking a Christian husband that would be drawn into all of her
former sin and rebellion against God for her pound of flesh. The situation we write of here is not
uncommon in the
It said: ‘Converts do
not represent a devious fifth column determined to undermine the Western way of
life – this is a group of normal people united in their adherence to a religion
which they, for the most part, see as perfectly compatible with Western life.’
The report estimated
around 5,200 men and women have adopted Islam over the past 12 months,
including 1,400 in
In 2001, there were
an estimated 60,000 Muslim converts in
Converts who have
turned to terror include Nicky Reilly, who tried to blow up a restaurant in
But the report said
the number of converts sucked into extremism represented a ‘very small
minority’.
The survey, conducted
by Kevin Brice from
They identified
alcohol and drunkenness, a ‘lack of morality and sexual permissiveness’, and
‘unrestrained consumerism’.
More than one in four
accepted there was a ‘natural conflict’ between being a devout Muslim and
living in the
More than half also
said they experienced difficulties after converting because of negative
attitudes among their family.
Last year Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former prime
minister Tony Blair, attracted widespread publicity when she announced
that she had converted to Islam.
Fiyaz Mughal, director of Faith Matters, said: ‘Conversion to Islam has been stigmatised by the media and wrongly associated with extremist ideologies and discriminatory cultural practices.’