Summary
To make the case of British Muslims all the stranger, in the wars during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, which was the great crisis before 11 September 2001, the victims of oppression objected ferociously to being described as "the Muslims". The Serbs weren't called "the Orthodox" and the Croats weren't called "the Catholics".
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Muslim Is Not a Dirty Word
Every now and again, Khurshid Ahmed, a leading figure at the Commission for Racial Equality, has encounters with strangers which border on the surreal. Men and women who appear to be well-informed and well-intentioned stop him in the street or in shop queues and ask in a polite manner if he and his fellow Muslims want to kill them.
Ahmed replies with equal politeness that, no, neither he nor anyone else he knows supports al-Qaeda or applauds suicide bombers, and he walks away wondering and worrying.It takes time for an immigrant group to establish itself. The gap between their numbers and the status society accords them is usually expressed as complaints about disproportionate rates of unemp...See the full content of this document
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