UK Muslim converts: A minority within a minority

A file photo of Muslim women in the UK

Converts to Islam in the UK often feel isolated and dislocated and feel the sense of being a ‘minority within a minority.’

They live in a liminal space: cut off from their families and friends and only tenuously integrated within heritage Muslim communities, according to a landmark report produced by Cambridge’s Center of Islamic Studies in 2016.

While religiosity functions in a culture and shapes a culture, it is the culture that then becomes a more powerful force than the religious ideology that developed it. 

This culture can then become a hindrance to the very principles of Islamic identity, thereby rejecting the needs of the newcomers to Islam. Being vigilant to this injustice that can be ingrained into our religious centers structurally is a necessity specially in a world where sectarianism is rife.

 


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