Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West

摘要: Apart explores why many Western Muslims are disaffected, others engaged, and some seek to undermine the very political system that remains their primary means of inclusion. Based on research conducted in London’s East End Madrid’s Lavapies district, drawing over 100 interviews with community elders, imams, extremists, politicians, gangsters, ordinary people just trying get by, Justin Gest examines young Muslims’ daily existences. Confronting conventional explanations point inequality, discrimination religion, he builds a new theory arguing alienated engaged behavior is distinguished not by structural factors, but how social agents interpret shared realities. Gest’s conclusion sounds an unambiguous warning policy-makers, presages imminent American experience same challenges. Our futures likely be shaped significantly government discipline fears better understand Muslim fellow citizens.