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I found this article interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5012300.stm Much is being made these days about British Identity – or the erosion of it. Predicatably the finger is being pointed at “Multi-culturalism”, but I don’t believe this is correct. Much more pervasive is the influence of advertising, marketing, publishing and broadcasting. The times, they are a changing. Also [...]

A revised version of my article “For God and Country?” was printed in last week’s edition of The Muslim Weekly. You can read it on line at http://www.themuslimweekly.com under Comments.

Although Lesley White’s article focusing on the social life of the British Muslim community in this weekend’s Sunday Times was not particularly negative, it has irritated me. There seems to be an underlying assumption that the United Kingdom is defined by a monoculture, outside which lie the Muslims. It is not. I am a native [...]

I appear to be going off on tangents a lot these days and here I go again. In an opinion piece on a US website last week, a British Muslim journalist lamented the growth of pop culture within the Muslim community. She was commenting on the response of female audiences to the nasheed performances in [...]