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Nov 30 2004

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NPR : Europe, Islam’s New Front Line: Britain

Among Britain’s 1.8 million Muslims, anxiety is growing over a sharp rise in what the British call Islamophobia. Post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorist legislation and proposals for even tougher measures have led to widespread disaffection, anger and isolation among Muslim youth. The result is a widening generational disconnect, as NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli reports from London in the third story in our series on Muslims in Europe

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Nov 30 2004

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Young, Muslim and British

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Young, Muslim and British

Young, Muslim and British: The Guardian is a very interesting Special Report on young British Muslims. Some, small, research, debates, articles and so on. A lot of them is linked in the posts below, all of them are listed in this post.

Yes the whole issue is placed here, but remember: all credits go the Guardian and their respondents.

So sit down, relax, take a cup of coffee or tear, take some time and read it!
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Special reports | How would you describe your identity?

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How would you describe your identity?

Table 1
How would you describe your identity?

Multiple identities for those whose family roots reach abroad can be “comfortably” negotiated, Mr Ahkter added, explaining: “I am absolutely British. I am absolutely Pakistani. I am absolutely Muslim. I am all of those.”

“‘British Muslim’ is a title with an empty page, we have a good opportunity to start defining it,” he concluded.
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Special reports | How do the faithful live in a secular society?

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How do the faithful live in a secular society?

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How do the faithful live in a secular society?

There was general agreement that some of the problems Muslims identify in British society are problems for others as well. Islam, said one speaker, did not have a monopoly on morality.

But Anber Raz, a social worker, warned against seeing threats to Islam always from without. “Muslim communities are doing worse things to Islam than anything from the outside,” she said, “Racism, sexism, classism - it’s all in our own communities. We’re doing it to ourselves.”
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Nov 30 2004

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