"Dessutom kom nya bevis ... att islam har fått ett formellt godkännande i etablissemangets hjärta. Drottningen [av England] har godkänt nya arrangemang som ger muslimsk personal på Buckingham Palace ledighet för att delta i fredagsbönen i en moské. En anställd på ekonomiavdelningen är den första att dra nytta av det, sade den brittiska tidningen."
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Jonathan Birt, the son of Lord Birt, who became Muslim argued that an inspirational figure, similar to the American convert Malcolm X for Afro-Caribbeans, would first have to emerge if the next stage, a mass conversion among white Britons, were to happen.
"You need great transitional figures to translate something alien (like Islam) into the vernacular," Birt was quoted by the Times.
A first authoritative study was carried by the Sunday Times on February 22. 2004
RADIANCE VIEWSWEEKLY 7-13 March 2004
About 14,000 Britons having recently reverted to Islam
