Why do Britain’s mosques, ordinary places of worship for the country’s three million or so Muslims, attract a degree of hostility and suspicion from the wider population? A story related in the early part of this revealing book gives a strong hint of the answer. Its author visits Didsbury Mosque in south Manchester. The act of worship feels almost incidental to everything else that’s going on. It sends a chill down the spine

Source: The Times June 02, 2021 15:56 UTC