ASIN: B0103WYCTY
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 110
Presented in the traditional form of a dialog (of 73 parts), this book examines the problems posed by and for Muslims living in the West. They often approve of their western lifestyle while feeling it is not sufficiently Islamic. On the other hand, they may realize that a lot is wrong with existing Muslim states, and so they long for a pure Islamic state vaguely like the half-imagined golden age of a distant Caliphate. For some, this may lead them to Islamic State, the IS, ISIS or ISIL which has become so familiar to us; they may also see it as an opportunity for excitement and adventure, rather as young British people went off to the “colonies” in the past, some as soldiers but some as pilgrims. Not unnaturally, this makes many westerners uncomfortable to say the least . Fortunately, many other Muslims, and this includes the “Orientalis” character of the dialog, see ISIS as the very ...
