Abstract
This is the second of two articles based on small-scale empirical research involving several hundred Muslim university students in Britain that was conducted between December 2003 and April 2004. The first article, which was published in the last issue of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs,1 explained how the empirical data was collected; delineated three strategies undertaken by British Muslims to express their religio-political identities; and discussed competing claims on the students' political loyalty. This second article will be divided into three sections. The first will deal with the students' views of the events of September 11, 2001. The second will discuss the students' views with regard to the Western influence on the lives of Muslims. And the third will analyse the respondents' views regarding the West/Muslim world dialectic and the confrontational and conciliatory visions thereof.
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