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ajiss-887	Masterton, Rebecca	Medina in Birmingham; Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam By Innes Bowen (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2014. 230 pages)	2016.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1918	61	51	230 pages Medina in Birmingham; Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam by Innes Bowen seeks to explain to a mainly non-Muslim readership the complexities and nu- ances of different Muslim groups that have come to live in Britain since the 1950s. It in- cludes, as some criteria of whether Muslims are “moderate” or not and can therefore be trusted or not, the issue of loyalty to the monarchy (Does that also make non-Muslim anti-monarchist Britons suspect?); the degree of secularism and support for secular society (What about all the British Christians who feel that they are under attack from hard-line secularists?), and whether there is the 110 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33:1 ajiss33-1_ajiss 12/30/2015 12:59 PM	cache/ajiss-887.pdf	txt/ajiss-887.txt