Britian to break Muslim ghettos in its cities

London, Oct 4 (UNI) Tory leader David Cameron has promised to break up Muslim ghettos in Britain's cities.

He said Islamic schools should in future admit a quarter of their pupils from other faiths.

''Housing estates should be planned to avoid creating isolated communities,'' he asserted.

He used his keynote party conference speech to say Britain had made an error by allowing ghettos to develop.

''It worries me that we have allowed communities to grow up which live 'parallel lives','' he said in an extract of today's speech obtained in advance by the Evening Standard.

''Communities where people from different backgrounds never meet, never talk, never go into each others' homes,'' said the Tory leader.

On the controversy over schools, Mr Cameron said he backed faith schools and supported Muslim parents who wanted the same for their children as everyone else.

''But, now a new generation of Muslim schools is emerging. If these schools are to be British state schools, they must be part of our society, not separate from it,'' he said.

He praised the Church of England for implementing a recommendation from the Cantle Report into the inner cities that said all faith schools should take some pupils from other backgrounds.

''This is a great example of what I mean by social responsibility,'' said Mr Cameron, adding ''I believe the time has come for other faith groups to show similar social responsibility.'' He said migrants should learn English because contact between people would overcome differences and the most basic contact comes from talking to each other.

Mr Cameron said children should be taught ''the core components of British identity - our history, our language, our institutions''.

''Whole neighbourhoods cut off from the rest of society.

Immigrant families who only ever meet people with the same country of origin. We need to find ways to avoid this,'' he added.

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