A team of five mostly 20-something Americans, led by esteemed Muslim scholar Akbar Ahmed, are crisscrossing the nation on an anthropological mission to discuss American identity, Muslim identity, and find out how well the US upholds its ideals in a post-September 11 world. “As a social scientist … as a Muslim, it was almost my…
The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for The Times. The population multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics reveals. In the same period the number of Christians in…
Prison staff in top security jails in Britain are confronting a growing gang culture with groups of Muslim inmates seeking to assert their authority on the wings. A prisons watchdog report published today provides fresh evidence of the extent of gang activity among inmates jailed for the most serious crimes and of the growing proportion…
Registration is now available for the Bristol-UCL Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship conference on Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities, 14-15 November, 2008 in Bristol. A limited number of places are available for non-paper givers and those not connected to the Programme. The Leverhulme Programme team will address topics based on the following themes:…
A panel of Christian and Muslims gathered to affirm that all people can be both citizens and believers, and that being a citizen – or being a person of faith – are not mutually exclusive identities. This is a point made in a final statement released from the conference “Being Citizens of Europe and a…
