09 December 2011

Can traditional Islam adapt to the needs of western Muslims?

.... Muslim clerics have a long way to go in order to make Islam relevant to the needs of the diasporic communities of the west. The religion has travelled hundreds of miles but the imams themselves have a hard time adjusting to the west, let alone being able to offer the community the comfort and guidance it needs in order to live peacefully between two civilisations that seem so hostile to one another.

It's the blind leading the blind, I concluded, as I left the mosque, hoping to find solace in solitary contemplation conducted in my own language.

[A COMMENT] If your religion seems like a load irrelevant medieval nonsense to you, imagine what it seems like to the overwhelmingly secular native UK population? [Guardian Cif] Read more