Milo wrote:With respect, I'm delighted that the UK is declining in Christianity, or any other religion a load of mumbo jumbo at best neolithic, how people wish to follow any faith produced by scholars from primitive times surprises me. BUT although I do respect everyone who has a faith, I can see its mostly a faith for older people.
I despise the church for its scandals and the way it treats women plus so much more, and I feel nearly all religion in some way opresses it's followers, on holiday in indonesia a few years ago, the poverty was abundant but the offerings to their gods took their last cents, the same in Thailand Egypt etc.
So in the UK the population are giving religion the cold shoulder, brilliant it's about time....just leave it to those who quietly want to follow a faith.
Do you think that the remaining UK population ( 97+ % ) who more than half no longer have a desire for religion will suddenly take up the Koran? Or could it be just as before, we tolerate a religion that a minority follow? Of course that is what is happening, hardly earth shattering is it?
I think to misinterpret such articles is just attempting to feed Islamphobia which some far right groups and editors in the UK have tried to do for a number of years, it's a load of scaremongering with no depth at all. Radicalisation is hated by moderate Muslims and as we speak normal Muslims are tackling it within their young. Just leave them to deal with it.
Having said all that, how is it that the UK is in trouble with just 2.7% of its population being Muslim when 18% of Cyprus population is Muslim?
if we're in trouble of a growing religion, how is Cyprus going to fare in future?