{"id":5144,"date":"2010-10-28T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/most-popular-boys-name-in-britain-mohammed.html"},"modified":"2010-10-28T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:43:31","slug":"most-popular-boys-name-in-britain-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/most-popular-boys-name-in-britain-mohammed.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular boys’ name in Britain: Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Damien Thompson has some reasons: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nIs it a function of the scale of immigration from Muslim countries over the past decade? I’m sure that’s not the main factor. The answer, I suspect, lies in the findings of a poll by Policy Exchange in 2007:<\/p>\n

Young British Muslims are much more likely than their parents to follow the rules of the Islamic religion, a think tank survey showed.<\/p>\n

Support for Sharia law, Islamic schools and wearing the Hijab is much stronger among younger Muslims, according to the survey by the centre-right Policy Exchange.<\/p>\n

The survey of more than 1,000 Muslims from different age groups in the UK, found:<\/p>\n

\u2022 71% of over-55s compared with 62% of 16 to 24-year-olds believe that they have as much, if not more, in common with non-Muslims in Britain than with Muslims abroad.<\/p>\n

\u2022 19% of over-55s compared with 37% of 16 to 24-year-olds would prefer to send their children to Islamic state schools.<\/p>\n

\u2022 17% of over-55s compared with 37% of 16 to 24-year-olds would prefer living under Sharia law than British law.<\/p>\n

\u2022 28% of over-55s compared with 74% of 16 to 24-year-olds prefer Muslim women to choose to wear the Islamic headscarf.<\/p>\n

These religious young Muslims are more likely than their parents to name their boys after the man they (and the ever-respectful BBC) refer to simply as “the Prophet”. This is a function of the Islamification of Britain’s Pakistani community, which was encouraged by the last government to identify itself by faith rather than national background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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