Young British Muslims

Muslim youth since 7/7 regularly dominate the news media. They are looked upon with suspicion and apprehension that they might be associated with some terrorist organisations. In the last few years their involvement in drugs and prostitution had grabbed headlines. Of course there are problems with their settling down in the new environment. Even the third generation of young Muslims faces problems of identity and culture. These issues were regularly debated and discussed in many seminars and conferences. Many in-depth surveys and studies were undertaken in the past. This new study by Nahid Afrose Kabir, Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding, Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia, provides results of her extensive research done in April 2008. Kabir is herself of Bangladeshi origin and familiar with the religious and cultural background of the majority of Muslim youth living in the UK. For her fieldwork she conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with over two hundred young Muslims from diverse ethnic backgrounds in five cities: Bradford, Cardiff, Leeds, Leicester and London.