ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the internal workings of the PFI, highlighting the PFI’s practice of moral vigilance and agenda of self-cultivation to generate support, solidarity and social cohesion among its followers. I also demonstrate how the movement provides political education and legal aid, and promotes a rights consciousness that appeals to its members. Such legal pragmatism is essential to contain violence and to show that marginalised groups can have an impact in parliament, the courts, the market and during interactions with the police. Finally, a discussion is included of how the PFI reaches out to its young Muslim support base by facilitating religiously inspired welfare activism such as disaster and riot relief work and social services.
