An Unholy Alliance?: Racism, Religion and Communalism
Author(s)
Kundnani, Arun
Abstract
For too long there has been a reluctance to discuss the issue of communalism in British Asian communities. Organised religious groups can be powerful forces and their critics are either accused of ‘washing dirty linen in public’ or denounced for a supposed disloyalty. When those who have spoken out are women, the denunciations have been even more severe. Too often, ‘fundamentalism’ has been a charge leveled only at other sections of the Asian community, while silence has reigned on fundamentalism in the name of one’s own faith.
