Photo:
Muslims attend Friday prayers on a rainy first day of Ramadan, at the
courtyard of a housing estate next to a small BBC community centre and
mosque in east London (Reuters/Chris Helgren)
Με
βάση τα αποτελέσματα της απογραφής του 2011 στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία, το
Ισλάμ πρόκειται να γίνει η κυρίαρχη θρησκεία εκεί την επόμενη δεκαετία.
Οι βασικότερες αιτίες είναι:
Οι βασικότερες αιτίες είναι:
- Το δημογραφικό πρόβλημα που παρατηρείται ανάμεσα στους Χριστιανούς.
- Το ότι πολλοί Χριστιανοί στο πέρασμα των ετών οδηγούνται στην αθεϊα.
- Σημαντική αύξηση πιστών του Ινδουϊσμού, Βουδισμού και Ιουδαϊσμού.
- Οι μουσουλμάνοι αποδεικνύονται ως πιο «πιστοί» στις παραδόσεις τους.
- Αύξηση της μετανάστευσης των μουσουλμάνων στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία.
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One
in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the
2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an
aging Christian demographic could mean Islam will be the dominant
religion in the UK in 10 years.
A
new analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics
(ONS) showed that the number of Christians was falling 50 per cent
faster than had previously been thought. Earlier analysis of the
statistics showed only a 15 per cent decline, but the ONS found that
this figure had been beefed up by 1.2 million foreign-born Christians.
Furthermore,
the re-analysis showed that the majority of Christians were over the
age of 60 and for the first time less than half of young people describe
themselves as Christian. As a result the ONS has calculated that in a
decade only a minority will classify themselves as Christians in
England. Christianity is still the dominant religion in the UK with over
50 per cent of the population regarding themselves as believers.
However,
this may be set to change as the British Muslim population has surged
dramatically over the past 15 years, increasing by 75 per cent in
England and Wales. The 2011 census puts the Muslim population of the UK
at around 5 per cent, a total that has been boosted by around 600,000
Muslim immigrants who have arrived in the UK over the past decade.
Keith
Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said
to UK daily the Telegraph that the decline of Christianity is
“inevitable.” “In another 20 years there are going to be more active Muslims than there are churchgoers,” he said.
Moreover
the number of people identifying themselves as atheists has increased
by 10 per cent, rising from 15 per cent to 25 per cent. The change has
been dubbed as a “significant cultural shift” by the British Humanist
Association, while the Church of England has shrugged off the
statistics, maintaining they still retain a strong base of believers.
"While
this is a challenge, the fact that six out of 10 people in England and
Wales self-identify as Christians is not discouraging. Christianity is
no longer a religion of culture but a religion of decision and
commitment. People are making a positive choice in self-identifying as
Christians," said a spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of
England and Wales told press in December.
In addition the census registered an increase in followers of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Judaism.
‘Sleepwalking into segregation’
The
rising number of immigrants and different ethnicities in the UK has
given rise to increasing levels of segregation. Think tank ‘Demos’ has
labeled the phenomenon ‘white flight’, citing the falling number of
ethnic whites in areas where they are minorities.
Demos’
investigation revealed that new ethnic minorities like Somalis where
moving into areas where older most established ethnic populations like
Afro-Caribbeans had previously been dominant.
The
population of London is indicative of the change in the British
demographic with 600,000 white Londoners moving out of the capital in
the past decade. In spite of the fact that the British capital’s
population has grown by more than a million, the number of white British
residents has decreased from 4.3 million to 3.7 million.
“We do have an integration problem,” said Demos director David Goodhart to RT. The
“changing ethnic composition” of the British capital is causing a large exodus of ethnic white out of the city, he added.
Goodhart
went on to say that the problem of integration was not confined to
Great Britain and is prevalent all around the EU despite attempts to
eradicate segregation.
“Part
of the point of the euro was to disperse German power and prevent the
rise of nationalism in Europe, but it has done precisely the opposite on
both fronts. We now have serious national resentments in countries like
Greece,” he stressed.
Trevor
Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights
Commission warned that the statistics did not spell good news for
integration in the UK and warned the country was.
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