The Fight for the Muslim Vote: The British Election

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Pretty Amazing- "voting is a crime against god" LOL


VICE

Published on May 6, 2015
Ahead of the UK general election on May 7, VICE News explores voter apathy within the British Muslim community and finds out if issues such as the country's counterterrorism policy and Islamophobia are pushing young Muslims into disenfranchisement.

In the 2010 general election, a lower percentage of British Muslims voted than any other religious group. Despite being the fastest growing religion in the UK and boasting more young adherents than any other religion, it appears young Muslims are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the government.

VICE News speaks with Islamists who are rejecting voting and British society, those trying to get Muslims to vote, and those trying to win those votes. We meet with young Muslims to hear their opinions on the election and explore what influences them at a time when they are facing numerous challenges.

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1. What's stopping them from forming their own parties?

It is a parliamentary system, after all. It'd sure be interesting to see how a hypothetical jihadist party got on with teabagger-like Ukip!

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2. The nearest thing to that is George Galloway's Respect party

Which draws a huge proportion of it's support from the Muslim community, although they seem pretty exclusively focused on holding George Galloway's Bradford West seat.

http://www.respectparty.org/

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3. There's far more anti-Muslim stuff out there

The far right in the UK loves to bash Muslims.

Much of the far right in Britain has turned to UKIP, and locally to me UKIP are targeting Rotherham, where the Muslim community has been at the centre of a major grooming scandal.