Excluding and Including the ‘Other’ in the Global City: Religious Mission among Muslim and Catholic Migrants in London

Central to the public reaction to these events and to critiques of multicultural policies has been the trope of fundamentalism, popularly interpreted as a direct threat to ‘Western’ political and cultural traditions. In the ensuing ‘war against terror’, groups or individuals, who can be defined as fundamentalist, have attracted keen public attention, and in some cases the state has intervened using the widening range of its judicial powers. At the same time, the trope of fundamentalism has been interpreted by religious leaders to justify strategies which are quite separate from any ‘war against terror’.