British university report concludes number of converts has nearly doubled in the last decade to about 100,000 people.
Tahera Rahman
he number of converts to Islam in the UK has nearly doubled in the last decade, with over half of them being white females, a new study has found.
The report by Kevin Brice of Swansea University shows that the number of people converting to Islam has risen from about 60,000 in 2001 to about 100,000 in 2010.
The publication, entitled A Minority within a Minority: A Report on Converts to Islam in the United Kingdom, was based on three surveys, one of which found 56 per cent of respondents to be white British and 62 per cent female.
Published on Tuesday on behalf of Faith Matters, a UK charity, the report stated that there have been 5,200 conversions to Islam in the last year alone.
"This is a group of people whose lives are very much a part of British society and their religious affiliations are just a part of that," said Brice, also a convert to Islam.