Alarming evidence is mounting of the radicalization of young British Muslims, including a recent survey conducted by Policy Exchange, a British think tank.

Policy Exchange found that “[o]f British Muslims aged 16-24, 37 percent would prefer to live under sharia in Britain, 37 percent would like to send their children to Islamic state schools and—most incredibly—36 percent think Muslims converting to another religion should be punished by death” (Sunday Times, February 4). A shocking 13 percent of British Muslims in that same bracket said they “admire organizations like al Qaeda, which are prepared to fight the West” (ibid.). The poll-based study showed the figures for British Muslims over the age of 55 are much lower—17 percent, 19 percent, 19 percent and 3 percent respectively.

The think tank accurately pinned the blame for these trends on Britain’s multicultural policies implemented in the 1980s. Munira Mirza, the report’s leading author, said such policies “have emphasized difference at the expense of shared national identity and divided people along ethnic, religious and cultural lines”—particularly among young people who have grown up with those policies.

One example of just how multiculturalism can breed problems is the climate of hate being legally promoted in some of Britain’s schools. A shocking story emerged from the King Fahad Academy in Acton that provides a glimpse into how some of the nation’s Muslim youths are coming to embrace such radical beliefs.

According to Colin Cook, a recently fired teacher, the textbooks used by the Islamic school describe Jews as “repugnant” and “apes” and Christians as “pigs” (Daily Mail, February 5). When Cook complained to the school management about the curriculum not exactly complying with British law, he was told, “This is not England. It is Saudi Arabia.” Cook stated that after the majority of the British teachers left in 2005, the school moved toward a pro-Saudi agenda.

Significantly, King Fahad Academy’s sister school located in Bonn, Germany, is known by German intelligence as a meeting place for activists linked to terrorism.

Multiculturalism and political correctness in Britain have permitted such activities to take place on British soil. Muslim and non-Muslim leaders alike, together with the media, are fanning the flames of the radicalization of British Muslims. For more information on this dangerous situation, read “The Sickness in Britain’s Heart.”