Douglas Murray Douglas Murray

Is the startling rise in Muslim infants as positive as the Times suggests?

Today’s Times has a lovely example of positive spin.  The headline is: ‘Rise in Muslim birth rate as families ‘feel British’. The story which gives rise to this headline is that:

‘Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim, a breakdown of census figures shows. 

‘The percentage of Muslims among the under-fives is almost twice as high as in the general population.

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