Islam in Britain: Responses to Ed Husain's Book

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

Responses to Ed Husain's Book

A Daily Mail newspaper article based on Ed Husain's new book has received negative responses online, of which this is one of the most high-profile:

These are complete and utter lies designed to do nothing but divide. The damage this does to all of us is devastating. It’s shameful, disgusting and a national embarrassment. Many are trying to bring us together, yet those with the largest platforms spread vile, dangerous hate. pic.twitter.com/5gQa7aOaAu
— Adil Ray OBE 💙 (@adilray) June 5, 2021

Here's a review of the book:

Yahya Birt, Medium, A Brown Sahib’s Lament: Ed Husain Among the Minarets

"Ed Husain’s latest screed on British Islam is a mashup between a Thomas Friedman in-depth ethnography via Uber, V. S. Naipaul’s gothic horror of all things Islamic, and a “brown sahib” reworking of post-Brexit English nationalism. In lieu of a review that it doesn’t warrant, I offer this brief visceral reaction instead."

Publisher's page

I haven't seen the book myself (not sure I am encouraged by the views of the above).

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Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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