A polling company last week released the results of a major survey of British Muslims who live in areas where they constitute at least 20 percent of the population. The results, according to Tom Wilson, are not encouraging:
What the findings of this poll point to is that there is now a sizable portion of the British Muslim community that holds views completely at odds with the pluralistic values that liberal democracies depend upon to function and survive. Take what British Muslims think about other minority groups such as Jews and homosexuals. In the . . . poll, 52 percent said they thought homosexuality should be made illegal in Britain. And what respondents had to say about Jews was no less shocking. Well over a third repeatedly endorsed wildly anti-Semitic statements.
No less than 44 percent of Muslims agreed that Jews have too much power in the business world, 38 percent said Jews have too much control over global affairs, 39 percent said Jews have too much influence over the media, and 26 percent said that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars. Additionally, 34 percent agreed that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.” However, when questioned, only 10 percent could accurately identify the number of Jews actually murdered in the Holocaust.
Cautious estimates from other research suggest that Muslims may be responsible for somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain, despite making up only 5 percent of the population. Yet talking honestly about this problem remains difficult. The notion that one minority group might be responsible for directing bigotry against another seems to be incomprehensible to polite opinion. The overarching narrative remains that racism happens only in one direction, from the Caucasian majority toward everyone else.
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