The Enemy Within
A Tale of Muslim Britain
Sayeeda Warsi
Allen Lane (Penguin)
346 pages; Rs 799
There’s a photograph from May 2010 of a beaming Sayeeda Warsi dressed in a salwaar-kameez and posing for photographers on the steps of 10, Downing Street after being appointed Britain’s first-ever Muslim woman Cabinet minister. It was hailed as a defining image of British multiculturalism, and David Cameron’s Tory “modernisation” programme. Ms Warsi's appointment was a modern day fairy tale —how the daughter of a Pakistani immigrant, who came to Britain with just £2 in his pocket, had been able to break through
