If Islam became the dominant religion in Britain, would Britain become an Islamic nation?

Britain would probably split up first 

That would simply make it a Muslim-majority state.  Technically, the state religion would have to be changed to make it an "Islamic state".  That, in and of itself, would not make it a theocracy, though, as Sharia would have to be adopted for that.  Then again, with a Muslim majority, it could become a de facto Islamic state/theocracy, even without the formal changes.

A chilling thought. Britain is nominally Christian, but secular in practice.

The Muslims form only a very small part of the total population, and most are perfectly content to live alongside every one else; but there among them the sort of bigots every religion has, who want to stop the world and get off, dragging everyone else off with them.

If Islam became the dominant religion in Britain, would Britain become an Islamic nation?

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With Muslims forming no more than a mere 5% of the population Islam is already the second biggest religion in Britain.

Your question is interesting because it makes one wonder what makes a nation Islamic. Which nation is more Islamic, one that upholds Islamic values of enlightenment, social justice and tolerance, for example, or one that has a vast Muslim majority but no Islamic values?

"Chilling thought"... that the nation would be ruled by the sort of band of selfish, cruel tyrants we see in parts of the Arabic world, where all the religious, cultural, social and political freedoms we take for granted are swept away by a neo-Nazi regime pretending to speak for God.

Essentially then, the second category you describe!

This post was edited by Durdle at May 2, 2017 9:39 AM MDT

I expect it is these very religious, cultural, social and political freedoms we take for granted which have lead some to the tolerance of sweeping statements like ""Chilling thought"... that the nation would be ruled by the sort of band of selfish, cruel tyrants we see in parts of the Arabic world, where all the religious, cultural, social and political freedoms we take for granted are swept away by a neo-Nazi regime pretending to speak for God."

oh the irony

used a sthe excuse,Thankyou Clurt.

The people for whom I expressed dislike are those who do not want to be tolerant, who want their way and their alone foisted onto the rest of us. If they wish to lead the life of the extreme ascete, let'em, but I don't want a society run by them, for them, forcing me to be one of them. I thought this was clear in my first post!

I admit not all the individual members of the Taliban are ruthless thugs. Some simply wanted Afghanistan to be run by Afghans and saw the Western forces as just as invasive as the Soviet Union had been. Nevertheless, in power they were a hard-line dictatorship financing itself largely through drug-dealing; they despised women and hated the notion of educating women; and they could also be extraordinarily petty, banning music and all manner of popular pastimes on the spurious excuse of "non-Islamic". I don't know what that means, and I doubt they do.

We have seen attempts in the UK by Muslim school governors to prevent children learning literature and music, or playing chess, for the same meaningless reason. Oh - and attempts by American commercial creationists with similar mind-sets to muscle in on British independent schools to further their own dark aims. 

Ironically, the Afghan poppy farmers are caught now between the opium-selling Taliban and the drugs-hating followers of Al Quaeda and ISIS.  

When you analyse the essential drives and means of groups of similar religious and political mentality to the Taliban, you realise that only the core belief used as the excuse differs. The basic attitude is the same, whether ISIS, Taliban, Nazi, Khmer Rouge or Soviet Union.  

I see little real dictatorship from the modern Vatican. I am not blind to its faults, but it does not try to suppress other religions or sects, or kill apostates (it did in Mediaeval times, but later grew up). I do not agree with some of its less libertarian doctrines and its misogyny; and it will be long time before it throws off its terrible reputation. However, it does act as a unifying management, and it is that which in our times, stops it being taken over by blind bigotry.