"The Economist": Islam in Britain shifted from religion "immigrant" to "endemic"

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Al-Ahram: fDi Magazine, "The Economist" that increasing numbers of British Muslim imams who were born and trained in the Imamate in Britain as part of the transformation of Islam in the European country of religion "immigrant" to "endemic".
And spotted - in comments broadcast via its website Friday - gathered six thousand men and women from Muslims every week a mosque neighborhood "Whitechapel" east of London for Friday prayers, which preaches the imams of the mosque three different languages ​​for explaining worshipers of different nationalities: Algeria, Bangladesh and India, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia and South Africa.
It noted the magazine accompany the Muslims, who came to Britain in Hakpti the sixties and seventies of the last century, mostly from Bangladesh and Pakistan, the imams religious them who do not speak English except few, while not demanding the government do so, noting Rcn Muslims to hear their native language in local mosques , particularly as they are struggling to resolve blades dialects spoken by residents of crowded cities in the east of England where he lives these Muslims.
But this situation may change, according to "The Economist", which pointed out that no one knows exactly how many imams who are in Britain, as well as languages ​​they speak, they reported the words of Abraham Mogera, Imam in "Leicester" and a senior member of the Muslim Council Britain, the number of English-speaking imams is on the rise, believing that a small number of them coming from abroad.
And Izzat magazine this increase in the number of English speakers among the imams, in part, to pressure from the British government after suicide bombings in 2006 that left 52 dead in London and established "National Advisory Council of Imams and Mosques" for the training of imams and their dependence on specific criteria.
The second reason is, according to the magazine, the demographic factor: the second and third generation of sons who came to Britain half a century ago may know Bengali or Urdu languages, but they no doubt know more English as their native language.
The magazine also noted in this regard for the opening of the Islamic institutes to teach and teaching the Koran and the Islamic faith in Britain since the seventies era.