Uk Census 2001

[S1ngh]

As everyone is probably aware the religion figures for the 2001 UK census were released a few months ago. Last week a more detailed report was released which breaks down the figures for religion into ethnicity as well. These figures are available here -;

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/cen...01/S104_E&W.pdf

One of the most interesting revelations in these figures for Sikhs in the number of Sikhs amongst the non-Asian ethicities. An important point to remeber with these figures is that the ethicitity question is not related to nationality or country of birth.

1. There were 6,893 Sikhs who were white. This figure is amazing given that there has not been any organised attempt by Sikhs to propagate their religion amongst the British. The figure for Whites who are Muslim is 179,773. On the face of it this figures appears to show the strides made by Muslims in converting the white people, but total given for whites in further broken down into British and Irish categories and other White. There are 63,932 British and Irish whites who were Muslims. The Other white figure includes all the Kosovans, Albanians and Bosnians who are classified as White but are not converts. So it is certainly a amazing fact that whereas Muslims with all their resources have only been able to convert 10 times the number of whites as Sikhs have. The Muslims have virtually unlimited resources but the Sikhs have neither cared for nor actively sought converts from the white population. There has been no organisation as the Sikh Dharma of Yogi Harbhanjan in the UK. This is what makes the figure of 10:1 so a

mazing.

2. Whereas the fact that there are white Sikhs in the UK is known to some in the Sikh community, the numbers for other ethinicities is even more revealing.

There are 617 Black Sikhs belonging to Black African or Black Caribbean ethnicities. There were 346 Pakistani and 113 Bangladeshi Sikhs and 79 Chinese Sikhs.

Source : http://www.sikh-history.com/cgi-bin/Ultima...ic;f=1;t=001532