IDENTITY AND BELONGING: INSIDER/OUTSIDER IN ED HUSAIN’S THE ISLAMIST
IDENTITY AND BELONGING: INSIDER/OUTSIDER IN ED HUSAIN’S THE ISLAMIST

Summary/Abstract: Since the events of 9/11 and the so-called „war on terror‟ „Muslim‟ has been used synonymously with„terrorist‟ dividing particularly those Muslims living in the West into either „good‟ Muslims or „bad‟Muslims. Ed Husain uses in his memoir The Islamist this dichotomy, as well as that of the „witness‟ in presenting himself as a credible analyst in answering why some young Muslims become attracted to fundamentalist Islamist groups hostile to the West. The author is a second generation British Asian Muslim who rejected the Sufi political quietism of his parents for the revolutionary ideologies of Islamic „idéologues‟ such as Abu A‟la Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb and particularly Taqi al-Din al Nahbani, joining Hizb-ut-Tahrir as an active member. Husain‟s story is one of a fractured past,manhood, the search for an authentic Islam and becoming British.

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