The Shrinking Sphere
Malise Ruthven, 6 July 1995
Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims
by Philip Lewis.
Tauris, 255 pp., £9.99, October 1994,1 85043 861 7 Show More
by Philip Lewis.
Tauris, 255 pp., £9.99, October 1994,
The Failure of Political Islam
by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk.
Tauris, 238 pp., £14.95, October 1994,1 85043 880 3 Show More
by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk.
Tauris, 238 pp., £14.95, October 1994,
“... Are the Muslims of Bradford, ‘Britain’s Islamabad’, incurably militant? There have been troubles in other cities with Asian Muslim populations, but the Muslims of Bradford have shown a consistent pattern of refusing to ‘take insults lying down’. They first demonstrated their militancy during the Honeyford affair in 1984-5, when the headteacher of the Drummond Middle School, 90 per cent of whose pupils came from Muslim families, was forced into early retirement after publishing anti-Pakistani remarks in the Salisbury Review ... ”