Integration in Multicultural England: Community Relations between Muslims and Non-Muslims (Islam of the Global West)

Positive relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are important for the future, in Britain and beyond.By studying community relations, this book takes an innovative approach that moves beyond mapping “British Muslims” or “British Islam”.Instead, Jörg Friedrichs discusses the actual ways Muslims and non-Muslims relate, or fail to relate, where it matters most, namely in diverse inner cities.Is Britain a multicultural country, is it moving towards greater integration, or is this a false dichotomy?Given their unique everyday experience, inner city residents prove to be experts when it comes to community relations.To give them a voice and learn from their experience, the book takes us on a tour of diverse English inner cities.Reassuringly, the grassroots perspective of residents is consistent with a vision of integration in multicultural England.Residents are concerned not so much about hot-button issues like extremism or terrorism.Instead, their minds are set on practical matters: how to