muslims2

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

QUESTION 5

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

QUESTION 6

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, often Islamist version of Islam (spread e.g. by wahabitic Imams trained in Saudi Arabia etc.)
• preached in English, a language young British muslims identify with
• mixed with idea of pride in being a muslim