Forced social integration plan targets Muslims
David Sapsted, Foreign Correspondent
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- Last Updated: September 29. 2008 8:31PM UAE / September 29. 2008 4:31PM GMT
LONDON // Muslim communities in Britain would be forced to integrate into UK society as a whole under a future Conservative government, the party has been told.
Plans to force all immigrants to speak English and to ban any place for sharia in the British legal system have been outlined at the annual conference of the Conservative Party, the country’s main opposition party.
The party, which has seen its lead over the Labour government in opinion polls cut to 12 points from 21 points in the past month, signalled an end to the policy of multiculturalism, which has encouraged different groups to retain their own religious and ethnic identities.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the Conservative shadow minister for community cohesion and social action, attacked what she called a “decade of state-driven multiculturalism” under Labour.
Mrs Warsi, a Muslim, said at the conference, which opened in Birmingham on Sunday, the policy had played on people’s differences and had created cultural divisions at the expense of shared British values.
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