Wikipedia's first sentence called it “openly embraced by a substantial minority of british muslims”. Today it says “use of islam as a source of political identity and action”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Islamism ( political Islam ) has existed in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, and has become widely visible and a topic of political discourse since the beginning of the 21st century. Islam in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly due to immigration since the 1980s. In 2011, 2.7 million Muslims (4.8% of total population) lived in the UK (mostly in England ), more than quintupling over a 30-year period (550,000 in 1981), with a continued tendency of rapid growth A position of radical Islamism is openly embraced by a substantial minority of British Muslims; according to a 2006 poll, 28% of British Muslims "hoped that Britain would one day become a fundamentalist Islamic state".1The Daily Telegraph: "Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim, census figures show" By Keith Perry January 10, 2013 "Many British Muslims Put Islam First" .2
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Islamism ( political Islam ) has existed in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, and has become widely visible and a topic of political discourse since the beginning of the 21st century. Islam in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly due to immigration since the 1980s. In 2011, 2.7 million Muslims (4.8% of total population) lived in the UK (mostly in England ), more than quintupling over a 30-year period (550,000 in 1981), with a continued tendency of rapid growth.
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Islamism , also known as political Islam , the use of Islam as a source of political identity and action, has existed in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, and has become widely visible and a topic of political discourse since the beginning of the 21st century. Islam in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly due to immigration since the 1980s. According to the 2021 Census, Muslims make up approximately 6.5% of the population in England and Wales, totaling around 3.9 million people.This reflects an increase from the 2011 Census, which recorded Muslims at 4.9% (2.7 million).
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “openly embraced by a substantial minority of british muslims”. Today it says “use of islam as a source of political identity and action”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
openly embraced by a substantial minority of british muslims
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use of islam as a source of political identity and action
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