أسكتلندا: انقسام المسلمين تجاه الاستقلال عن المملكة المتحدة

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تشهد "المملكة المتحدة" حالة انقسام واسعة بين صفوف المجتمع الإسلامي بين مؤيد ومعارض لقرار "أسكتلندا" إجراء استفتاء شعبي حول الاستقلال عن "المملكة المتحدة".

حيث ذهبت بعض الأصوات إلى تأييد فكرة "معًا أفضل" مقابل فكرة "نعم لاستقلال أسكتلندا".

وتضم "أسكتلندا" نحو 77 ألف مسلم من بين 5 ملايين مواطن يضربهم الانقسام الحاد حول الاستقلال الذي نتج عن الظروف الاقتصادية الصعبة التي يعيشها المواطنون، بالرغم من توفُّر موارد النفط بكثرة، ولكن تخضع لسيطرة "المملكة المتحدة" التي تتجاهل وضع الأسكتلنديين الصعب من وجهة نظرهم؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Scottish Muslims divided over independence vote

As Scotland heads towards a historic referendum that could see it voting for independence from the United Kingdom on September 18, just like the rest of Scottish society, Scottish Muslims are also divided on which side they vote for.

Although there are only around 77,000 Muslims in Scotland, which has an overall population of just 5.2 million, their political opinions have been divided by the rival Better Together and Yes Scotland campaigns.

“We know about general voting patterns among the Muslim community not just in Scotland, but across the UK, that they usually vote for the Labour Party,” Dr Timothy Peace, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh who specialises in research into British Muslims and political participation, told The National.

“I would expect in the Muslim community there would be the same kind of divisions and differences as in any other part of the community,” he said.

“I was a born and bred unionist, I believed in the British state,” said Scots Asians For Yes member Aamer Anwar, a Glascow resident of Pakistani origin. “But [what changed my views] was austerity,” he explained.

”When you look at how Scotland has the equivalent amount of oil resources as the state of Kuwait, yet you only have to look around at the poverty to see that those who have benefited have been the Westminster Treasury,” he said, adding ”All that seems to be getting offered by London since the 2008 financial crisis has been more austerity, more austerity, more austerity.”