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Who runs our mosques?

In America, most mosques profess to teach a version of Islam adapted to the modern world. That's not what I've found here...

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

The introduction of a madrassa curriculum at a secular state school in Birmingham and talk of Christian pupils at risk of ‘cultural isolation’ seem to have come as a revelation to non-Muslim Britain. They should not have. Islam in Britain is dominated by a very specific, and rather illiberal, version of the faith — one that, if anything, seems to be becoming more conservative over time.

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