The Study Of British Muslims In The Perspective Of Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a post World War II phenomenon, which emerged as a result of the confluence of several major historical developments: universal human rights; de-colonisation; the civil rights movement etc. Due to the different classification criteria, there are different types of multiculturalism, such as autonomist Multiculturalism; liberal multiculturalism; post-ethnic and cosmopolitan multiculturalism. The Evaluation on multiculturalism are different and Each sticks to his own view.The establishment of the British multiculturalism policy is not accomplish at one stroke, it covers different stages such as rudiment, establishment, transformation etc. In twenty-first Century, the British multiculturalism policy come to the stage of transformation, proposed the community cohesion policy.The population of British Muslims is complex, and its distribution in Britain is directly related to the purpose of the immigration to the United Kingdom..Under the governance of multiculturalism policy, the British Muslim demands in terms of education, employment, marriage, community participation has been a certain degree of satisfaction, but the disadvantage has not been fundamentally changed. At the same time, the British Muslims also face identity problems, and the increase of islamophobia and hate crimes.Multiculturalism policy has also brought some negative effects,which worsening the situation of the British Muslim to a certain extent. The British multiculturalism policy take group seriously while ignoring the individual, as a result limits the Muslim self-development. Meanwhile, how to deal with the balance of differences and commonness is a problem facing by the policy. The imbalance of the difference and commonness deteriorate the situation of Muslims. In addition, the policy also has some short slab, leading to some rights of the people are not protected, some legal are not implemented, and some policies do not get much better.At the beginning of the 21 st century, the series of riots in Britain prompted the government to adjust the multiculturalism policy, community cohesion policy arises at the historic moment. It aims to enhance mutual understanding and eliminate tensions through direct contact between ethnic groups, which young people and agents play an important role. For community cohesion policy, Muslims corporate actively and try to participate in.