Islam and Muslim Affairs series
A monograph series from the Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies.
1. British Muslims and the call to global jihad
Kylie Baxter, rrp AU$19.95, ISBN 978 1 876924 55 3
Since the events of 11 September 2001, Western Muslim communities have been placed under a social and political microscope. Omar Bakri Muhammad and his organisation al-Muhajiroun, based in London from the mid-1990s until 2004, endorsed militant jihad and generated a very public profile as the voice of 'Islamism' in the United Kingdom. Al-Muhajiroun's tenure in the United Kingdom spanned a crucial decade in international relations and the organisation acted as a lightening rod for the debates surrounding Islamism in the West. Drawing on interviews with Bakri, British Muslims and the call to global jihad explores the ways in which al-Muhajiroun attempted, and ultimately, failed to 'walk the line' between Islamism and life in a Western state.