Yahya Birt

Reproduced courtesy of openDemocracy, 25 May 2007
Tariq Modood’s reconsidered multiculturalism needs to be extended to a global and cosmopolitan canvas, says Yahya Birt.
There is much to admire in Tariq Modood’s defence of multiculturalism, developed in his book Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea and presented in his openDemocracy article “Multiculturalism, citizenship and national identity” (17 May 2007). [...]

Over at Bradford Muslim, Atif Imtiaz offers up “The Marcher’s Song“, a detailed account of a single day, when he recalls a big anti-war march he went on in September 2002. This was the prelude to an even bigger march on the 15th February 2003, the day when millions marched around the world to stop [...]

Ed Husain, The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left. London: Penguin, 2007. Pp. 288. £8.99. Paperback.
As this book was published at the beginning of May 2007, five British-born Muslims were convicted of plotting to blow up targets like a shopping centre and a nightclub using [...]