Islam in London
Islam is London's largest minority religion. In England, 40% of Muslims live in London, where they make up 8.5% of the population. There were 607,083 Muslims reported in the 2001 census in the Greater London area. Most are concentrated in the east London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
London Central Mosque is a well-known landmark on the edge of Regent's Park, and there are many other mosques in the city. However another landmark was set when Baitul Futuh Mosque was constructed in 2003 by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, being the largest mosque in Western Europe.
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“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
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—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
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