11-02-2008, 08:38 AM
[/b]Why British Women are turning to Islam
THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED
The Times - Tuesday, 9th November 1993 - Home-news Page
Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage
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THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED
The Times - Tuesday, 9th November 1993 - Home-news Page
Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage
Quote:Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches.
The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become an important religious force in this country. "Within the next 20 years the number of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that brought the faith here", says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says: "Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality claims it as its own". Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America.
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