A recent report by the Henry Jackson Society, a politically conservative research organization, found that one in 10 convicted Islamist militants in Britain come from five Birmingham neighborhoods. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“A lot of kids are on drugs, or from single-parent families, or who experience domestic violence,” Mr. Ashfaq said. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyTo many outsiders, the segregation is striking. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It doesn’t help when the community feels on the defensive,” she said, sitting in a sparsely furnished first-floor office. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyResidents were angered and appalled when the government in 2008 secretly placed hundreds of close-circuit television cameras in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods.

Source: New York Times March 27, 2017 01:16 UTC