Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Realities

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
	Notes
	References
1. Researching young Muslim lives in contemporary Britain
	Introduction
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
2. Child sexual exploitation and young British Muslim men: a modern moral panic?
	Introduction
	To categorise, sift and differentiate: the legacy of biological taxonomies
	The ethnicity and crime debate: reflections on British Asian-Muslim populations
	Tenets of a moral panic
	Asian grooming: a modern moral panic?
	Concluding remarks
	Note
	References
3. Do young British Muslim women need rescuing?
	Introduction
	Young British Muslim women and higher education
	A note on young Muslim women and marriage
	Some final thoughts
	Notes
	References
4. Urban young Muslims: cross cultural influence in the face of religious marginalisation and stigmatisation
	Introduction
	‘The whites [and Asians] have become black’: street culture and its
pervading influence among youth
	Urban Muslims – so who or what are we actually dealing with?
	Positive peer pressure: STREET – ‘For you from people like you’
	Natural born leaders?
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. Finding a voice: young Muslims, music and religious change in Britain
	Introduction
	Young Muslims in Britain
	A history of Muslim musicians in Britain
	Contemporary Muslim music: an emerging generation
	British Muslim musical soundscapes
	Contemporary nasheeds
	Aashiq al-Rasul
	Amir Awan
	Syncretic styles
	Sami Yusuf
	Pearls of Islam
	Muslim hip hop
	Poetic pilgrimage
	Quest Rah
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
6. Religious values and political motivation among young British Muslims
	Introduction
	Spiritual ties
	Ties that bind
	Ties that bond
	Facilitating political mobilization
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
7. Virtual youth: Facebook Groups as identity platforms
	Introduction
	Facebook as a social action tool
	Young British Muslim’s use of Facebook Groups
	Evaluating Facebook Groups as public identity platforms
	Group observations
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8. Digital Orientalism: Muslim youth, Islamophobia and online racism
	Introduction
	Online ‘race’ thinking
	Orientalism offline
	The online community
	Amir Khan and online racism
	Amir Khan = ‘race thinking’ online
	Asda – Muslim ‘baiting’ online
	Twacism – online racism
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9. Re-fashioning the Islamic: young visible Muslims
	Introduction
	Experiences of sartorial alienation
	Representing and marketing the Islamic
	Integrating ethics and aesthetics
	The poetics of spirituality
	The exoticism of the East
	Urban street style
	Islamic through inscription
	Islamic and other fashions
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Notes on contributors
Index