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Islam is the second largest religion with results from the United Kingdom Census 2011 giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as ~2,706,066, ~4.5% of the total population. The vast majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom live in England: 2,660,116 (5.02% of the population). 76,737 Muslims live in Scotland (1.45%), 45,950 in Wales (1.50%), and 3,832 in Northern Ireland (0.21%).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/scotland/KS209SCa.pdf )〕 〔https://philanthropy.com/article/Muslims-Rank-as-Most-Generous/220057〕〔http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/21/muslims-give-most_n_3630830.html〕 In 2011 it was reported that the United Kingdom had around 100,000 converts to Islam,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News – Converting to Islam – the white Britons becoming Muslims )〕 of which 66% were women. There were an estimated 5,200 conversions to Islam in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Data Viewer – Nomis – Official Labour Market Statistics )〕 Islam is the second fastest growing religious confession in the UK after irreligion and its adherents have the lowest average age out of all the major religious groups.〔('UK Census: religion by age, ethnicity and country of birth' ) 16 May 2013, Ami Sedghi, ''The Guardian''〕 Between 2001 and 2009 the Muslim population increased almost 10 times faster than the non-Muslim population.〔(Muslim population 'rising 10 times faster than rest of society' ) 30 January 2009, Richard Kerbaj, ''The Sunday Times''〕 The majority of Muslims in United Kingdom belong to the Sunni denomination.〔(UK Masjid Statistics ) Muslims In Britain (2010-08-18).〕 The largest groups of British Muslims are Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.〔Muslims in Britain: an Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.xvii + 318, ISBN 978-0-521-83006-5〕 ==History== The first group of Muslims to migrate to the UK in significant numbers, in the 18th century, were ''lascars'' (sailors) recruited from the Indian subcontinent (largely from the Bengal region) to work for the British East India Company. Due to the majority being ''lascars'', the earliest Muslim communities were found in port towns. Naval cooks also came, many of them from the Sylhet Division of British India (now in Bangladesh). One of the most famous early Asian Muslim immigrants to England was the Bengali Sake Dean Mahomet, a captain of the British East India Company who in 1810 founded London's first Indian restaurant, the Hindoostanee Coffee House. He is also reputed for introducing shampoo and therapeutic massage to the United Kingdom. The Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking was the first purpose built mosque, built in 1889. In the same year Abdullah Quilliam installed a mosque in a terrace in Liverpool, which became the Liverpool Muslim Institute.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/liverpool-mosque-and-muslim-institute )〕 The first mosque in London was the Fazl Mosque established in 1924, commonly called the London mosque. The growing number of Muslims resulted in the establishment of more than 1,500 mosques by 2007.〔Dominic Casciani (29 November 2007) (The battle over mosque reform ) BBC News (BBC). Retrieved 3 May 2009.〕 The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel ''The Satanic Verses'' in 1988 caused major controversy. Muslims in Britain condemned the book for blasphemy. On 2 December 1988 the book was publicly burned at a demonstration in Bolton attended by 7,000 Muslims, followed by a similar demonstration and book-burning in Bradford on 14 January 1989. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islam in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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