C L O S E R November 30, 2004 Archives

November 2004
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Oct		Dec »
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Research International.

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

0 comments.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Young, Muslim and British

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Young Muslims.

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!
(more…)

0 comments.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Young, Muslim and British

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

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!
(more…)

Comments Off on Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Young, Muslim and British

Special reports | How would you describe your identity?

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Young Muslims.

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.
(more…)

0 comments.

Special reports | How would you describe your identity?

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

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.
(more…)

Comments Off on Special reports | How would you describe your identity?

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

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Young Muslims.

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

Table 5
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.”
(more…)

0 comments.

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

Posted on November 30th, 2004 by .
Categories: Young Muslims.

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

Table 5
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.”
(more…)