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Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book—written six years before 9/11—examines the roots of political Islam and its offshoots in Britain. In describing the indifference of policy makers and government officials to religion, it warns of extremism taking root among disaffected young Muslims—and offers a vision of hope tempered with realism that might have helped avert tragedy had it been more widely heeded.

and the worst of the learned men is he who keeps the society of the king.’13 That is to say, religion and worldly affairs prosper together when political rules are qualified by moral principles, and they suffer when moral principles are qualified by political expedience. In one pattern of political absolutization we elicit a contrasting pattern of religious relativization. So far as the moral foundations of human behaviour are concerned, church and state are, indeed, Hippocrates’ twins: they share
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