‘Twas ever thus?
Caroline:
January 30th, 2007
A recent survey seems to show that young Muslims are far more attracted to political forms of Islam than the older generation. Groups of 16 to 24 year olds were compared with groups of over 55s in their attitudes to the wearing of the hijab, faith schools and sharia law. It is clear that younger Muslims can be more extreme in their beliefs but it would have been interesting to see how the attitudes of the older group had changed over the years. The survey may have shown that young Muslims can have more radical views but so do all young adults regardless of faith. Political and religious fervour lessens as we mellow with age!