The Economist (US), July 19th, 1997
ALLAH IN THE WEST. By Gilles Kepel. Polity; 273 pages; K45. Stanford University Press; $39.50. A HEART TURNED EAST. By Adam Lebor. Little, Brown; 256 pages; K18.99 AT THE end of the 1980s European societies awoke to find that they had politicised Muslims in their midst. Attention was drawn to their presence in Britain by the ramifications of the Rushdie affair and the concomitant disputes over Muslims in education; and in France by rows over girls who were expelled from school for donning "Muslim scarves" and by clashes over the management of mosques. Within the Muslim populations in these ...
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