New study: Muslims face worst discrimination in British job market
Muslim men were up to 76 per cent less likely to have a job of any kind compared to white, male British Christians of the same age and with the same qualifications. And Muslim women were up to 65 per cent less likely to be employed than their white Christian counterparts.
Muslims were the most disadvantaged in terms of employment prospects out of 14 ethno-religious groupings in the UK, researchers Dr Nabil Khattab and Professor Ron Johnston found using data from the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey of more than half a million people. Skin colour made little difference to the figures.
Dr Khattab, of Bristol University, said the situation was “likely to stem from placing Muslims collectively at the lowest stratum within the country’s racial or ethno-cultural system due to growing Islamophobia and hostility against them.
“They are perceived as disloyal and as a threat rather than just as a disadvantaged minority,” he added. “Within this climate, many employers will be discouraged from employing qualified Muslims, especially if there are others from their own groups.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 1st, 2014.
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is Adnan Nawaz, Malin Saeed,, and other Pakistan origin BBC staff in London not a symbol of acceptance of muslims in managerial level.
@Kamran: Muslims here in Canada doesn't face such discrimination and they enjoy high positions while at the same time keeping their Muslim identity intact.. Time to admit there's something wrong with British society. It's again going back to the vicious shackles of right wingers..
M should ask themselves where are we going wrong ? Remember - Anything that happens to me happens only because of me .
The article states that the study is for Managerial cadre. For this employers look for capability and qualification. Not religion.
Come back to the Origin
it is unreasonable to expect employers to accept the five prayer breaks demand
Good reason for more of you to become terrorists. Come on.. go for it.
Asians are facing the worst job discrimination of any human race in Gulf...!!
It comes down to the behavior of Muslims and their failure to integrate in the most basic ways into British society. The question is, they went to the UK because of a better life from where they were living. It would be prudent that instead of imposing their own will on society, they should try and understand that the country accepted them in and they need to respect that.