Muslim Britain: A siege within

It's a telling snapshot of "Muslim Britain" and the kind of Islam being promoted in British mosques and Muslim homes

Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain

Author: Ed Husain

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages:332

Price: Rs 799

My initial reaction to this book was one of déjà vu. Same old story of British Muslims’ isolationism and the stuff about extremist preachers, segregated mosques, proliferation of madrassas and sharia courts. What’s happening in Britain’s Muslim communities in pursuit of “authentic” Islam has been written about extensively. Ed Husain’s own much-acclaimed first book, The Islamist, an account of his journey to extremism and back, was about the Wahabbisation of British Islam and how it was alienating Muslims from larger British society.

At first glance, Among the Mosques has