‘Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’ – In conversation with Ed Husain

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‘Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’ – In conversation with Ed Husain

22nd June 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

The Henry Jackson Society is delighted to play host to a conversation between Ed Husain and Dr Alan Mendoza on “Among the Mosques: A journey across Muslim Britain” – Ed Husain’s latest book.

Having travelled the length and breadth of the country and explored the full extent of the diversity of Britain’s Muslim population and its places of worship, Mr Husain is well-placed to offer observations on the health and state of British Islam and the views of its adherents – and what a future trajectory for both might look like.

As can be expected with a book of this nature, its content and conclusions are heart-warming in part and hard-hitting and shocking in others. Mr Husain enjoys a string of honest conversations with British Muslims across the country about the trials and tribulations of daily life, reflecting the reality of ordinary British people getting on with normal lives in normal ways.

But he also uncovers significant evidence of intolerance and ignorance – even hatred and hostility – and warns that left unchecked, this strain of thought poses a fundamental challenge not just to British values, but to the very fabric of social cohesion that has hitherto bound as together as a nation.

Can integration yet triumph, or are the conflicts between tradition and modernity and the differing values of East and West too great to resolve and bridge? To answer this question and many more, please join us at this special event.

UK/European copies of Among the Mosques: A journey across Muslim Britain can be purchased here.

US copies of Among the Mosques: A journey across Muslim Britain can be purchased here.

 

 

Ed Husain is a British writer and political advisor who has worked with leaders and governments across the world. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC and has held senior fellowships at think tanks in London and New York, including at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Ed is the author of ‘The Islamist’ (2007) and ‘The House of Islam: A Global History’ (2008). His writing has been shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize. A regular contributor to the Spectator magazine, he has appeared on the BBC and CNN and has written for the Telegraph, The Times, the New York Times, the Guardian and other publications.

 

 

 

Dr Alan Mendoza is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society, Britain’s boldest thinktank fighting for the principles and alliances which keep societies free. He directs strategy for the organisation as well as acting as its main public face in mediums as diverse as the BBC, Sky, CNBC, Al-Jazeera. Bloomberg, LBC and TalkRadio. On the print side, Alan contributes to The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Sun, CityAM and a host of international newspapers and magazines.

 

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Date:
22nd June 2021
Time:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Website:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Cm5MyigeSnmiScytEchqZw

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Online

Organiser

Henry Jackson Society
Phone
+44 (0) 20 7340 4520
Email
rsvp@henryjacksonsociety.org

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SPEAKER
Ed Husain, Dr Alan Mendoza

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