In Britain, car insurance is more expensive if you are Muhammad

In the UK, drivers named Muhammad have to pay more for insurance policies than car owners with traditional British names.

Policies from English insurance companies as Admiral, Diamond, Bell, ElePhant or Marks & Spencer will cost much less “original” British than immigrants from Muslim countries, writes The Sun.

As the 36 -year -old Butt, who entered into an agreement with the Insurance company Admiral, told the publication, his policy became 166 pounds more expensive when the company found out that his second name was Muhammad. “This is racism, pure racism,” Batt said.

In the official response, the publication in Admiral said that customer names never caused overstating the cost of insurance products. However, the calculation of the cost of two identical cars for John and Muhammad shows that this is not so.

For example, annual damage, embezzlement or hijacking for the 2007 Ford Focus car for John Smith will cost 1333 pounds (about 105 thousand rubles). And for "Mohammed Ali" it will already be 919 pounds more - 2252 pounds (177.5 thousand rubles).

The Marks & Spencer insurance company will insure the Muhammad car for 3182 pounds, and the Smith car for 2949 pounds.

In Bell, the difference in the cost of the same insurance policy for cars Muhammad and Smith is 543 pounds (almost 43 thousand rubles).

The least "racism" in the insurance Diamond - there is the difference in insurance for "our" and "not our" in just 205 pounds.

Recall that last year in England the name Muhammad again entered the ten most popular in the country.

This is a name, or rather all three of its different spelling - Muhammad, Mohammed and Muhammad, on the eighth line of the top 10 popular names. Such data are given by national statistical management.

And the leading position in the list remains with Oliver. In the second and third places - the names of the British princes Harry and George. Also in the top ten Jack, Jacob, Noah, Charlie, Thomas and Oscar.