Attitudes Towards Muslims and Hindus in England. Are British People Afraid of Muslims?
Attitudes Towards Muslims and Hindus in England. Are British People Afraid of Muslims?

Summary/Abstract: According to literature and researches in European society there is a fear of Islam, the intensity of which is usually inversely proportional to the average citizen contacts with this religion. Taking in to account the long historical experience of multicultural Britain we wanted to see how it looks like in this society. In 20132014, the Inter-Institutes Migration Research Unit, of Cardinal St. Wyszynski University in Warsaw, did a limited research in England: Attitudes towards Muslims and Hindus in the UK. Limited Study. For the purpose of this research 77 persons were chosen by “snowballing method”. They completed questionnaires prepared according to the Bogardus Social Distance Scale. We asked two questions: Are there any significant differences in our respondents’ attitudes to Hindus and Muslims? Can we say on the base of these differences that it indicates a fear of Muslims? We were interested particularly in the respondents’ attitude to Muslims. Their attitudes towards Hindus were needed only for comparison. This study is treated as exploratory research, that means it does not aim to provide the final and irrefutable answers to the research questions, but merely explores the research topic and shows whether it would be worthwhile to undertake a broader research.

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