ABSTRACT
In early March 1994 Bradford Eid Committee organized a charity dinner held in conference rooms hired from the University of Bradford. The posters maintained that "everyone was welcome" to the dinner and so theoretically addressed all sections of society in Bradford. Indeed the clientele of many Pakistani restaurants is often white and non-Muslim. However on arrival at the dinner it was clear that this was to be an event bounding people on the basis of being Muslim, rather than on the basis of an interest in the multicultural affairs of the city. Majid, dressed in a suit but with no tie after the Iranian fashion, focused his concern, like Khadija, on Bosnia. While the materialism and secularism of Western lifestyles was seen as a threat to the faith of young Muslims born in Britain, Ikram also outlined the opportunity that a Muslim presence in Britain presents: offering the invitation of Islam to non-Muslim Britons.
