.... Robert Leiken’s Europe’s Angry Muslims is the latest attempt to characterise this audience. He has read widely and spent time on the ground, particularly in the banlieus of urban France, and in Beeston and Dewsbury in Yorkshire. This was not much use since the Mullah Boys, devoted to the memory of lead 7/7 bomber Siddique Khan, ensured that no one would talk to him.
Leiken is less familiar with Germany, the third case study he pursues, but this does not lessen the impact of his powerful book. His approach is refreshingly free of both political correctness and sentimentality, and nor does he need to cosy up to minorities to win votes. [ES London] Read more
