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There are international events that have such a resounding impact on people’s lives that imagining a world in which they had not occurred would be difficult. For many Muslims, that ‘moment’ was the 9/11 terrorist attacks. There has been considerable pressure placed on Muslims since then — through media coverage, local and national government policies, regulations regarding security and laws preventing extremism.
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Mustafa, A. (2015). Introduction. In: Identity and Political Participation Among Young British Muslims. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302533_1
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