Monday, November 21, 2005

Why Muslims must guard against the satisfactions of complaint / Guardian Unlimited, 21 Nov 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/islam/story/0,15568,1647157,00.html
Madeleine Bunting
"A year on from the Guardian's first experiment in bringing together young Muslims for an evening of discussion, we did it again. The mood of the forum, held last week, had shifted in unexpected ways; there was less anger from the 60-odd participants from across the UK, but what had replaced it was, perhaps, even more worrying - a pervasive sense of frustration. Much of it is targeted at the government, but some is also directed at the Muslim community itself - why can't it make itself heard? Why can't it address its problems of poverty and educational underachievement? And the persistent questions about representation: who claims to speak for 'the community' and why?"

Summary of debate - http://www.guardian.co.uk/islam/story/0,15568,1647171,00.html