British Muslims and the call to global Jihad

Kylie Baxter
Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Press, 2007

ISBN: 9781876924553

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Book description
Between the mid-1990s and 2004, Omar Bakri Muhammad and his organisation al-Muhajiroun courted the British tabloids and generated a very public profile as the voice of ‘Islamism’ in the United Kingdom. The collision of confrontational Islamist rhetoric and the media ensured a public presence disproportionate to this marginal organisation’s place within the British Muslim community. British Muslims and the call to global Jihad explores the lifespan of al-Muhajiroun and charts the organisation’s perspectives on the ‘war on terror’, Muslims in the West and the role of the United States.

About the author
Kylie Baxter is a researcher and lecturer in the Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies at Monash University. Her research interests include Muslim settlement in the West and Middle Eastern politics. She has published internationally on Islamism in the West and Middle Eastern politics. Her publications have appeared in the Journal for Muslim Minority Affairs, Immigrants and Minorities, Middle East Policy. She is also the author of US Policy in the Middle East: the rise of anti-Americanism (Routledge 2007).

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