Monday 5 November 2012

British Muslims split along sectarian lines over Arab uprisings

HA Hellyer, The National, British Muslims split along sectarian lines over Arab uprisings "... most Muslim Britons do not have Arab ethnic backgrounds, and most have evolved to become essentially "post-Islamist". Post-Islamism, in this sense, means their initial impetus for engaging in political life was from an emotional attachment to Islamism, but they have a secular rationale in the public arena that is not dissimilar from British social conservatives. But many of them have roots in Islamist community organisations and links, if only symbolic ones, to the Muslim Brotherhood." Opinion and analysis