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50,000 People Convert To Islam Every Year In U.K.

The British government has said that 50,000 people are converting to Islam every year in the United Kingdom. The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jasarat quoted U.K. Home Secretary Jaqui Smith as saying that the number of people who converted to Islam since 2001 stands at about 400,000.

Source: Roznama Jasarat, Pakistan, May 22, 2008

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