muslims2

Book, p. 86 / 87 + qu 5 + 6

QUESTION 1

• Muslims in 60s came for economic reasons originally, hope to go back ⇒ keep original culture, language ....
• their children grow up in two worlds è undefined position between cultures, open qu. of Britishness
• grew up in monocultural ghettos, with no contact between native white English and immigrant communities

QUESTION 2

Islam of first generation:

• folklorish, traditional, orthodox;
• presented in a second language (parents' lang.) ⇒ foreign/strange for children

New Islam:

• presented by young Imams, radical, political, Islamist version of Islam
• preached in English, a language young British muslims identify with