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The Predicament of Diaspora and Millennial Islam

Reflections on September 11, 2001

Keele University, UK

This article considers the production of an Islamic utopian or millennial discourse by British South Asian Muslims in the diasporic public sphere and its possible impact on the younger generation of Muslims growing up in the UK. Associated with such a discourse, the article considers the vulnerability of diasporas – the process whereby global events can precipitate radical diasporic estrangement, leading to self-estrangement. Such estrangement is fed by moral panics, expressed in the speeches of politicians, in newspaper columns and global news reports. This exposes the fragility of multicultural discourses in the public sphere in the UK.

Key Words: British Pakistanis • Islamic radicalism • millennialism • Muslims • political Islam • Utopia

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