Editing Deobandi movement (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
{{further|Islamism in the United Kingdom}}
In the 1970s, Deobandis opened the first British-based Muslim religious seminaries (Darul-Ulooms), educating imams and religious scholars.<ref name=Who/> Deobandis "have been quietly meeting the religious and spiritual needs of a significant proportion of British Muslims, and are perhaps the most influential British Muslim group."<ref name=Who>{{citation |url=http://www.onreligion.co.uk/who-are-britains-muslims/ |title=Who are Britain's Muslims? |date=12 August 2016 |work=On Religion magazine |first1=Abdul-Azim |last1=Ahmed |access-date=9 August 2018 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809154515/http://www.onreligion.co.uk/who-are-britains-muslims/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2015 [[Ofsted]] highlighted the Deobandi seminary in [[Holcombe, Greater Manchester|Holcombe]] as a good example of a school "promoting British values, preventing radicalisation and protecting children".<ref name=Ofsted201415>{{citation |title=The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills 2014/15 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483347/Ofsted_annual_report_education_and_skills.pdf |date=1 December 2015 |publisher=House of Commons |pages=95–96}} [https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/24830/2/Ofsted_annual_report_education_and_skills_Redacted.pdf Alternative URL].</ref> The journalist, [[Andrew Norfolk]], did not agree with this assessment.<ref name=AndrewNorfolk19April2016>{{citation |title=Prisons chief praises extreme Islamic sect |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/prisons-chief-praises-islamic-sect-that-warns-of-repulsive-christian-women-srjb6cdc6 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=19 April 2016 |first1=Andrew |last1=Norfolk |author-link =Andrew Norfolk}}</ref>

According to a 2007 report by Andrew Norfolk, published in ''[[The Times]]'', about 600 of Britain's nearly 1,500 mosques were under the control of "a hardline sect", whose leading preacher loathed Western values, called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah and preached contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus. The same investigative report further said that 17 of the country's 26 Islamic seminaries follow the ultra-conservative Deobandi teachings which ''The Times'' said had given birth to the Taliban. According to ''The Times'', almost 80% of all domestically trained [[Ulema]] were being trained in these hardline seminaries.<ref name=Hardline>{{cite news |title=Hardline takeover of British Masjid |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=7 September 2007 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/hardline-takeover-of-british-mosques-khdjz2cjpnc |first1=Andrew |last1=Norfolk |author-link =Andrew Norfolk}}</ref> An opinion column in ''[[The Guardian]]'' described this report as "a toxic mixture of fact, exaggeration and outright nonsense".<ref>{{citation |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/07/atoxicmixoffactandnonsense |title=A toxic mix of fact and nonsense |first1=Inayat |last1=Bunglawala |date= 7 September 2007 }}</ref>

In 2014 it was reported that 45 per cent of Britain's mosques and nearly all the UK-based training of Islamic scholars are controlled by the Deobandis, the largest single Islamic group.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/06/who-runs-our-mosques/ |title=Who runs our mosques? |newspaper= [[The Spectator]] |date =14 June 2014 |first1=Innes |last1=Bowen}}</ref>