Victorian and Edwardian Britain was heavily and favourably disposed towards Islam. Starting probably in awe of the Ottomans the Brits found a lot of merits in Islam & ummah.
Take note,in pics 4 & 5, of the fact that the Brit aristocracy was pretty much smitten by the Islamic bug with much ardour from the Pom buggers. From teenage girls to commanders of armies, though totalling only a few hundreds, anglosaxons were converts to Islam and were living as an integral and respectable cogs within the cream of the British society and their royal institution.
Churchill was one of its epitomes to the extent that he used to frequently dress himself and his friends in Arab/Muslim dresses and themes. Churchill is alleged to have contemplated converting to Islam even. He did not probably because of his easy virtues with men and love for pork, smoking and drinking.
About their politics and strategies we know how they leveraged the Muslims in bhArata against the Hindus much before Syed Ahmed Khan, through the Muslim League, bloody genocidal partition, into the decades of aftermath and the current day Pakistan as well.
https://penniesinawell.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/islam-in-the-victorian-age/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-17827016
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Quilliam
Why they did so or continue to do so, some answers could be traced here.
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