Muslims in Britain are torn between western consumerism and traditional Islamic culture.

There has been a Muslim presence in Britain since the early nineteenth century, but the Muslim community only began to increase significantly in the 1950s and 1960s, with the arrival of large numbers of workers from the Indian sub-continent. About half of the current 2 million Muslim population were born here, so there is an increasing tendency to communicate in English, thus indigenising Islam.  Today, Muslims are the second largest religious group in much of Europe and North America. For many Muslims it is a soul-searching journey when adapting to life in the West and having to face the prospect of where their identities truly lie….(short extract)