Islam has the second largest following of any religion and its adherents are found in substantial numbers all over the world, with the Arab Muslims constituting only a small fraction of the total. Despite its huge following, Islam is poorly understood in the West, and in this country, the media consistently misrepresents the aims of Britain's 2 million Muslims (Hanlon, 1985). There are several reasons for this: cultural racism of the West (Daniel, 1966), collective amnesia of Islam's contributions to world civilisations (Semaan, 1980); past rivalry between Christians and Muslims; and the ascendancy of the West in the last 200 years. The distorting mirror of racism still caricatures Islam in terms of polygamy, purdah, religious zealotry - an
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