14 May 2012 Bradford accommodates the third highest percentage of South Asians in the UK. So-called ‘Muslim votes’ make up 45% of the constituency’s population, and thus these votes are crucial for any political party that wants to score a victory in the elections. Political experts were taken by surprise when George Galloway…
Research by the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University has found that chaplaincy, usually associated with the Christian faith, is a rapidly expanding sphere of work for Muslim professionals. Muslim chaplains play an increasing role in linking Muslim communities with public organizations; they can now be found in prisons,…
Based on figures by UK National Statistics, the Telegraph reports that Hindu, Sikh and Muslim teenagers are more likely to go to university than their Christian or atheist counterparts. A study conducted for the Department of Education found that 77% of Hindu and 63% of Sikh teenagers go on to higher education, compared to 53%…
In advance of this week’s federal elections, Dutch student unions spoke to the Telegraaf about the potential effects of study grant reform in the country. Practicising Muslim students will be hit hard if the new cabinet replaces the current student grants with a system based on student loans. Student unions explained that Muslim students’, who…
Geert Wilders has publicly announced that the influx of non-Western immigrants to the Netherlands is costing Dutch society 7.2 billion euros per year. Wilders, leader of the far- right Freedom Party, bases his claims on a research report commissioned by the party from the Nyfer economic research unit. Nyfer concluded that immigrants to the Netherlands…
