Muslims students in UK

1 in 3 Muslim students approve killing for Islam

If ignorance and poverty are responsible for the growth of extremist views in the Islamic world, someone needs ask to Muslim students, privileged enough and bright enough to attend some of the United Kingdom's best universities, why one-in-three of them endorses killing in the name of Islam.

The report of this finding, based on a poll of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at 12 universities in the UK, will be released tomorrow as "Islam on Campus."

Among its findings of Muslim beliefs:

*40 per cent support introduction of sharia into British law

*One-third back the idea of a worldwide Islamic caliphate based on sharia law

*53 per cent believe killing in the name of religion is never justified (compared with 94 per cent of non-Muslims), while 32 per cent say it is

In April, MI5 [Military Intelligence] warned that donations of hundreds of millions of pounds from Saudi Arabia had led to a "dangerous increase in the spread of extremism in leading university campuses."

"The finding that a large number of students think it is okay to kill in the name of religion is alarming," said Anthony Glees, professor at Buckingham University. "There is a wide cultural divide between Muslim and non-Muslim students. The solution is to stop talking about celebrating diversity and focus on integration and assimilation."

[WorldNetDaily]