How Asian communities came to be defined by Islam
Tom Unterainerâs âEngineered Identitiesâ in Solidarity 3/176 was not in my view really a review of Kenan Malikâs book From Fatwa to Jihad. Tom doesnât really present Malikâs case. Nor was it a good analysis of the state of the âMuslim communitiesâ in Britain. The title of Malikâs book is a little misleading. He is not simply concerned with the period since 1989 (when Khomeiniâs death sentence against Salman Rushdie for writing the Satanic Verses was issued). What Malik is aiming to do is to explain how Asian communities which produced radical, left-wing youth movements in the 1970s have come...