The Daily Telegraph: Muslim population has grown from 1.65m to 2.87m in a decade

Except homosexuality was actually only legalised in the 60's, and in the 19th century you would have been executed for being a homosexual- ironically dictated by christian law. Its not too far off and to claim a moral high ground over it is proposterous.

secondly, it goes without saying that Islam forbids homosexuality- as does the christian, sikh and jewish faith. Does this mean all such religions are 'anti-western' ? Why are we not protesting against these faiths in the same way we protest against Islam ?

Thirdly, while many muslims (and indeed most religious people) may be against homosexuality, it does not mean they want to actively destroy it; beyond a few crazy mullahs, there has been no 'united calling against the gays' in any monotheistic religion. Hence, whilst religious doctrine presents the fundamental idea that homosexuality is a sin, at the same time there is not a simultaneous calling that all should be executed, as seems to be suggested in your tone.

OH Ironic. "We are the TRUE religion, we will rule the world". Yeah that's a so peaceful statement to make...

Second if a veracity of a religion is judged based on the number of its follower, well Christianity is the "true" religion. There is around 2 billions Christians while Muslim are 1.3 billions (Catholics alone are 1.2 billions)... Your pride in number is kind of childish and clearly misplaced...

The problem of Muslim people is aggressive people like you who feels the need to jump at everyone throat when the word "Islam" come into a conversation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_homosexuality

First what others do is not a justification for bad behaviour, second it's not even as clear as you state.

OH Ironic. "We are the TRUE religion, we will rule the world". Yeah that's a so peaceful statement to make...

Second if a veracity of a religion is judged based on the number of its follower, well Christianity is the "true" religion. There is around 2 billions Christians while Muslim are 1.3 billions (Catholics alone are 1.2 billions)... Your pride in number is kind of childish and clearly misplaced...

The problem of Muslim people is aggressive people like you who feels the need to jump at everyone throat when the word "Islam" come into a conversation.

I am aware that many churches accept gay Christians- in fact I fully support it. However as stated previously, this is a relatively new phenomenon and in most orthodox churches for example, being a homosexual is a sin, as it is in most of the abrahamic religion. Now, Christianity may have been extremely liberalized, which is fine, however to expect that other religions follow suit is rather pedantic. Hence, when the OP says 'Muslims do not accept homosexuality' it is true, whether one likes it or not- it states explicitly in the Qur'an that homosexuality is a sin. Ofc this does not mean it does not happen in the middle east. In fact it probably happens over there more often than what we are led to believe.

Perhaps that problem can be addressed though, and in doing so we might be able to achieve other goals. If we are able to bring up a generation of SE Asians and Arabs who have experience of prosperity, and who tend towards more liberal social views (be it through liberal Islam or atheism) then that can be an encouragement for people of the same ethnicity to adopt similar views. By inviting people from other countries in, and helping them prosper in an open society with liberal social and economic policies, we can demonstrate that liberal democracy is for everyone. If we shut them out, then it helps reinforce ideas that liberal democracy is only for white Western Europe. In the long run, that makes us less secure than we are now: if we deal with minor internal worries now then we can help prevent potentially serious external worries caused by unstable nations in the future.

It's interesting to note that the number of Muslim people in Britain has now surpassed the number of Welsh people.

But as most of this thread has quite rightly stated, so what if the Muslim population is growing? It's not like we are nearing a full scale Islamic revolution. A lot of the younger, second generation Muslims are not even that religious. We're all humans, so as long as some of the fundamentalist aspects of Islam don't find their way into British society, the more the merrier.

funny how the liberals defend the muslims, when its islam that is against liberalism

your all welcoming now, give it a few decades, when they make up half the population, and when the country is on the brink of civil war

yes, a lot of you will neg me for this, but how can you deny this is going to happen

the majority of you are a disgrace to your ancestors (with honourable exceptions)

funny how the liberals defend the muslims, when its islam that is against liberalism

your all welcoming now, give it a few decades, when they make up half the population, and when the country is on the brink of civil war

yes, a lot of you will neg me for this, but how can you deny this is going to happen