Status Updates From Among the Mosques: A Journe...

I know where the author wants to bring me to, and let me shut up until the end

I don't get the horror at commemorating a battle by the Shias with religious rituals. Like, the political aspects etc sure but he mentions that much later as an addition to that, but everyone commemorates distant battles. Also, he's super aggressive when questioning Muslims, but never challenges anything a white person tells him.

This man is painfully English. The chapter on Belfast gives me concern for the quality of other bits. Claiming the Kashmir Road is probably named in solidarity for the struggle when most streets in Belfast have names routed in colonialism shows a lack of curiosity in favour of ideology. Also saying he felt he was returning to modernity in the airport, so very English.

So far, Husain seems obsessed with what people are wearing, has selected very particular mosques in specific areas, and has not once admitted to declaring the fact he is writing a book to anyone he's spoken to. This raises a few ethical questions than will not be answered. "Interviews" two random white men on the street and seems much more passive with them so he can "speak the unspoken, and hear the unheard"...