A report by Saied Reza Ameli and Arzu Merali for the Islamic Human Rights Commission

Publication date: 18th November 2004, 84 pp, ISBN 1-903718-25-2

Background: The report is the first in the series British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government. The series aims to chart the key areas of concern for Muslims are and what they as participants in the social order expect the government’s engagement with them to be.

The project looks at citizenship as not only a series of ‘rights and obligations’, but also comprising the ‘need for recognition’ and the ‘emotional’ elements. Without the latter two elements, discussions aimed at fostering civic values and dynamic, inclusive citizenship are in vain, and could lead to long term social fragmentation.