Beats the sh** out of me - and I live here.
Politically, I expect the answer lies somewhere in the same area as "Why do you guys allow 50 million illegal Mexicans into the USA?"
Mind you, I was rather tickled by the Muslim claim that they account for around a third of the Scouts' UK membership.
I wonder, prophet that he was, whether Mohammed foresaw Baden-Powell's penning of the Scout handbook, "Scouting For Boys"????
Very few in the US are actually in favor allowing illegal aliens into our country.
However, the main problem with that arguement (which a lot of Europeans make) is this:
Mexicans do not come into the United States with a religious tradition which advocates the destruction of America and the barbaric murder of all of our citizens.
The article says Muslims account for a third of Scouts wordlwide. It claims only 1% of Britihs Scouts are Muslim.
I think what this article really reflects is that Scouting, like a lot of other traditional boys groups, is rapidly dying out in the UK and they're getting desperate enough for members that they're having to start making overtures towards minority communities in order to boost recruitment.