Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran

Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory, which form an important part of the syllabus, citing their religion. Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act. Recently Usama Hasan, iman of the Masjid al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton, received death threats for suggesting that Darwinism and Islam might be compatible. Turkish author Harun Yahya has written several books denouncing Darwinist theory. Yahya associates Dawinism with Nazism and his books and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in Britain and regularly featured on Islamic television channels. Islamic speakers regularly tour Britain lecturing on Yahya's beliefs. One such lecture was given at UCL in 2008 and in 2011 talks have been given in London, Manchester, Leeds, Dundee and Glasgow. Evolutionary biologist and former Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins has expressed his concern at the number of students, consisting almost entirely of Muslims, who do not attend or walk out of lectures.