“Director of Research for the IIFL, Charlotte Littlewood, claimed that the main driver of people identifying as Muslim first was not a loyalty to Islam,” but rather “about not feeling welcomed to identify as British first.” Nonsense. Loyalty to Islam has shifted to a new phase since illegal Muslim migrants began invading the West in large numbers, and since Muslim Brotherhood-connected Islamic lobbies made significant inroads in Europe and North America, with the aid of leftist leaders who engaged in excessive kowtowing. Add in the ubiquitous (and aggressive) “Islamophobia” campaign, and the Palestinian cause.
Oddly, the survey also “found that nearly eight in 10 (78 per cent) saw the UK as a more accommodating country for Muslims than other European nations such as France, Germany, or the Netherlands.” Levels of infidel kowtowing to Islam are correlated to levels of Muslims feeling welcome anywhere.
Islam is based upon Sharia supremacy. Throughout history, as Muslim populations grow in any region, so does the Muslim determination to impose the Sharia, as Islam is a religion of conquest. There is clearly more to these statistics than the scope of the research findings that the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life presented.
According to the Muslim Council of Britain, in 2016, “an overwhelming majority, 73%, of the Muslim population in England and Wales consider British to be their only national identity.” So a major shift has taken place in the last nine years, and since Octpber 7, 2023, the call to globalize the intifada has taken the Muslim assertiveness in the West to new heights. Also having a significant impact are calls from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to unite the ummah, with “the Palestinian cause” being called “the central issue of the ummah.”
“Overwhelming Majority of UK Muslims Identify as Muslims First over Being British: Report,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, March 31, 2025:
The vast majority of British Muslims identify with their religion over their nationality, a report has found.
A study conducted by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL), based on survey data and interviews with 815 British Muslims, has found that over seven in ten (71 per cent) identify as Muslims first.
In contrast, just 27 per cent of British Muslims said they primarily identified as British, English, or Scottish.
The report found that younger people were far more likely to identify as Muslims first at 85 per cent, compared to older Muslims, a majority of whom (57 per cent) identified as being British first.
“When you ask people in their 20s, that were born here, in this country, they can express themselves very freely. They can freely call themselves ‘Muslims’ rather than ‘British’. But if you speak to their father, they will say they are British. The immigrant generation had to push their Muslim identity down so they could integrate,” one of the survey respondents remarked.
Director of Research for the IIFL, Charlotte Littlewood, claimed that the main driver of people identifying as Muslim first was not a “loyalty to Islam” but rather “about not feeling welcomed to identify as British first.”
However, despite supposedly not feeling welcome, the survey found that nearly eight in 10 (78 per cent) saw the UK as a more accommodating country for Muslims than other European nations such as France, Germany, or the Netherlands.
Additionally, the study found that a majority of British Muslims say that they prefer living in the UK compared to a Muslim-majority country, with many saying that because of the “cultural and religious diversity in Britain, their specific religious practices do not ‘stand out’ the way they might in a Muslim country.”….
Patrick says
Of course they do. Muslims do not migrate for a better life, they migrate to divide and conquer.
OLD GUY says
Same thing all over the world, Islam will not let these people integrate into a culture of love and peace. They must dominate over the non-muslim/islamic citizens with hate and violence.
Tony Rice says
I guarantee any Muslim living in the UK would prefer to live here more than in any Muslim governed country. The change of living where is one way in the main. Very few go back from whence they came.
Hoi Polloi says
Here’s CBC supporting exactly this standard:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-september-19-2016-1.3768458/documents-reveal-csis-and-rcmp-s-role-in-torture-of-3-canadians-in-syria-1.3768531
Line 1 of the article:
“In 2008, a closed-door judicial inquiry found that Canadian officials indirectly contributed to the torture of three ****Muslim-Canadians**** in Syria and Egypt.”
The asterisks are mine; muslim first.
Eddie says
Is it not the general in the USA that for example black citizens refer to themselves as African Americans rather than American Africans ? That they are Americans first and foremost ?
Contrast this with the universally applied term in the UK – “British Pakistanis”
Pakistanis who happen to have colonised areas of Britain.
Tells you all you need to know.
And this week Muslim MPs, mostly Pakistanis have met to discuss the creation of an airport in Mirpur Pakistan. Strange topic for British MPs ? This is because when their constituents( British voters that is ) go “home” they have hours of driving or travel to reach Mirpur.
And if I am right in my understanding these MPs expect the UK to pay for the construction of such an airport.
Mirpur is the area from whence it seems most “British” Pakistanis originate or actually come from.
And the day is seems to be approached when Britain will be just a satellite state of a greater Pakistan.
To which country do these folk owe their first allegiance?
Answers on a postage stamp.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, they don’t owe an allegiance to a country: they owe it to the global ummah. Which is why, during the Iraq war, you’d get Pakistanis – and indeed muslims from other countries – declaring their solidarity w/ Saddam, even though they were not Iraqis, who themselves had different reactions to Saddam, based on their own ethnicities. The Pakistanis squatting in England and elsewhere in Britain don’t have an extra-territorial loyalty to Islamabad: they have a loyalty to islam that trumps any iota of loyalty that they might have had to Britain
Even in Pakistan, Bangladesh and muslim ghettos in India, they are happy to declare their allegiance to members of the master races – namely the Arabs and Turks. Arabs b’cos islam is essentially an Arab-centric religion, and Turks b’cos the entire islamization of the subcontinent were a bunch of essentially Turkish projects (w/ some Afghan ones thrown in). The fact that a lot of them are descendants of converted Hindus, Buddhists or Jains simply doesn’t strike them
Hudders. says
Are there any out tthere now who deny the fact that Britain has been invaded?
From town to town & city after city, vast areas are now foreign territories, under the fearful sway of sharia, among the satanic influence of sharia courts & thuggish patrols being clearly visible.
Large parts of once great Britain does not resemble what it did only a short number of years ago.
The stench of unwashed, perverted & insolent soldier age muslim males hangs over the conquered enclaves aplenty.
English is becoming a secondary language in many areas now, where a white face or non muslim is a rearity.
Mockery after mockery. liberty taken after liberty stolen.
Britain as we knew it is in mortal danger.
It is only a matter of time before the army of death cultists receive the call to cleanse the land for the demon god Allah.
We have been warned, history informs us, current affairs reveal it.
Soon throats will be slit, until ‘all is for Allah’.
Heaven help us all.
Eddie says
Hudders, as usual you see the situation in Britain in very stark and basic terms.
Do you exaggerate ?
Are you jumping at shadows?
I also ask myself these questions.
It is hard to believe that we could in Britain experience our own October 7th but on a nationwide scale.
We have imported nasty savage people from all over the world. Are they capable of such things ?
And if they are, what is to stop them?
I saw a migrant being interviewed on video and he said
something like ” We will take your houses, your women and your cars.
You will live in tents and pimp your children to survive”
And we hear of the violence among migrants on the beaches of France as they wait to board the dinghies
– gun shots, stabbings, children trampled, women pushed back and left behind stood in the water and French police attacked if they ( very rarely) intervene.
So the dinghies then put to sea to cross the channel
and are met half way by UK ” Border Force” and escorted to England.
The same nasty b******ds.
Living amongst us.
Tim gallagher says
No surprise with this situation at all. The Hungarians, poles and Czechs have the right approach to islam. They ban the load of primitive, barbaric filth from their countries. I don’t if it will ever happen but I believe that islam should be banned from all non Muslim countries. Islam stomps on endless basic human rights. Pedophilia with young girls being married off and used for sex is one example. Women and girls being worth half what a man is, that trashes basic rights Islam is a load degenerate shit and it deserves to banned from and thrown out of all enlightened societies. Islam is nothing but trouble and should be thrown out. It will have to happen some day in the future so it might as well be done now.
Siddi Nasrani says
This is how to deal with them.
North China Herald, 1867.
” If politeness & ceremony be observed towards Mohammadans, they imagine they are feared & become arrogant; But in showing severity & rudeness, they are impressed with fear & respect, & they are supple & manageable .
Tim gallagher says
I agree with that method of dealing Muslims, siddi. Of course the best idea is the Hungarian one. You just don’t accept any in the first place. Islam is a disaster and should be banned in all our non Muslim countries.
Eddie says
Siddi thank you
1867 ? Remarkable.
Why have we in the West learnt nothing ?
Churchill said much the same in 1899 and I am sure that commentators over the past 1400 years have recognised that Islam must be faced with strength not appeasement and concessions.
The Israelis know this. That is the only reason they still survive, and perhaps some devine intervention.
King Charles does not know this, nor the UK Government, nor the EU nor any Western leader.
Hungary is an exception.
We learn as children that bullies must be stood up against.
There is no other choice but misery.
skeptiker says
Wann sehen wir Kamilla, die Angetraute vom englischen König, in einer Burka? Man muss einfach mit der Zeit gehen und neue Trends akzeptieren. Immer schön mit dem Strom schwimmen liebe Untertanen !!
bill says
It is ridiculous to suggest UK does not make them welcome, the country is studded with mosques, wherever any number of Muslims live has a mosque. There are probably as many mosques as there are churches and any other non Christian faiths, plus they are allowed to run their own schools where sharia is promoted and their superiority is indoctrinated so as not to be conatminated by British non muslims children, then the mullahs in the mosque also tell them it is the will of allah that they do not make friends with non Muslims, as well as other indoctrination and. So little wonder that the young are more Muslims than British.
Young muslims are confronted with being separate from non Muslim young people at every turn of their lives, especially by parents!
gravenimage says
No place would be considered welcoming *enough* unless it imposed Shari’ah law and enslaved native Infidels for Muslim invaders.
Garry Pollack says
I too, as a jew feel my loyalty to hashem supercedes my national loyalty. Devout Christians feel the same, Jesus first America second. We R just fortunate that, those loyalties do not conflict.
Garry Pollack says
I too, as a jew feel my loyalty to hashem supercedes my national loyalty. Devout Christians feel the same, Jesus first America second. We R just fortunate that, those loyalties do not conflict.
Garry Pollack says
I too, as a jew feel my loyalty to hashem supercedes my national loyalty. Devout Christians feel the same, Jesus first America second. We R just fortunate that, those loyalties do not conflict.
Garry Pollack says
I too, as a jew feel my loyalty to hashem supercedes my national loyalty. Devout Christians feel the same, Jesus first America second. We R just fortunate that, those loyalties do not conflict.
gravenimage says
Yes–these loyalties do not conflict, Not so with Islam.
James Lincoln says
Currently, there is no disincentive for muslims to continue invading the UK.
Troybeam says
Islam, once you become Muslim no matter where any Muslim lives they are Muslim. That is all they are allowed to acknowledge.
gravenimage says
UK: Overwhelming majority of Muslims identify as Muslims first over being British
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This is the case everywhere–not just in Britain.