7/7 (Electronic book text)

This book explores and articulates the insights, reactions and experiences of a range of Muslim men and women following the events of 7/7 - their feelings, anxieties and concerns. It explores how they negotiated their own positions with mainstream society and with each other in the aftermath. The contributors reflect upon the event and express their personal responses, serving as a starting point for an exploration of the challenges and expectations which the future holds for them. As the contributors come from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, and a wide variety of spiritual practices, this project offers a rich mosaic of lived experience, subjective accounts of people's hopes, worries and fears. In doing so, it offers a deeper understanding of Muslim lives in the UK. It serves equally to put into perspective Islamic extremist ideologies in fringe groups.