A 2016 ComRes poll commissioned by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association found that 43 percent of the British viewed Islam as a negative force in the UK and 28 percent believe that Islam is compatible with British values.
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By Jeremy White-Stanley | April 27, 2017
The acceptability of Islamophobic rhetoric has clearly become more commonplace in Western politics, perhaps best exemplified by Trump’s Muslim travel ban and the rising popularity of European anti-Islamic populists such as Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders. Britain’s mainstream politics has never been as overtly anti-Islamic as of its continental counterparts.Even UKIP’s former leader Nigel Farage has stressed that he wanted to attract the support of sensible moderate Muslims. In the light of such extremes across the West, the vote to leave the EU, although stoked by xenophobic threats such as floods of Turkish immigrants coming to the UK, was not an explicit reaction to Muslim immigration. In fact, fears of Eastern European immigration matched the fears of their Islamic counterparts. The shift to hard stance on Islam in British politics seems a way off, as there have been no laws in Britain to ban the Burka like in France, and is no closer to entering mainstream political discourse.
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