ABSTRACT
The British National Party (BNP) effectively managed to manipulate such tensions, fuelling suspicions that vital regeneration funds were being prioritized towards ‘Asian Muslim’ areas at the expense of local white populations. Historical and contemporary encounters continue to embody South Asian Muslim women through cultural and religious frameworks as essentialized oppressed figures of victimhood and despair, but also as sexualized and fetishized ‘Others’. Numerous stories of relevance either to British Muslims in general or South Asian British Muslims in particular have made the headlines in Britain. The BNP effectively managed to manipulate such tensions, fuelling suspicions that vital regeneration funds were being prioritized towards ‘Asian Muslim’ areas at the expense of local white populations. Asian youth clashed with local police over what they perceived as double standards on the part of the police in failing to respond to their concerns of attacks by white racists.
