Source: BBC
The government estimates there are 190,000 Muslim women in England who speak little or no English. Ministers are determined to tackle some of what they see as the underlying issues, amid mounting concern about the number of Britons going to Syria to join so-called Islamic State.
You can take your pick of popular myths and misconceptions about Muslims in the UK – that their numbers are going through the roof, they’re all would-be extremists, that Britain’s prisons are filling up fast with convicted terrorists.
All make for lurid headlines and speak about Muslims as if they were a single homogenous entity – the “Muslim community” can be a shorthand way of referring to Pakistani and Bangladeshi-origin Muslims – ignoring the fact Britain’s many different Muslim communities are highly diverse in terms of nationality, ethnicity and language.
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