Mystified - Rated 
I am a great admirer of Rageh Omaar's television journalism, but I stopped short with the prologue of this book. It was another one-way traffic argument: Westerners (the word Christians isn't used) don't understand Muslims. (Sorry, but shouldn't Muslims also attempt to understand Westerners?) I was mystified why he was so 'shocked and humiliated' when two 'Western' journalists give him some career advice which seemed pretty innocuous to me. When a fellow Muslim journalist replies to the question, 'Why are young Muslims trying to bomb us?' with 'Because they are invisible.' we are supposed to understand. I must be dense because the answer doesn't make any sense of the question. It seems to be the answer to another question altogether, yet Rageh Omaar feels it is hugely significant. I was mystified by the whole argument.
a good idea poorly executed - Rated 
i am an admirer of Rageh's television journalism and hoped that this book would try to tackle some of the questions so many of us want answered about what is going on in the minds of young Muslims. sadly i didnt think he was particularly illuminating on this topic. maybe the reason is that his own background is quite unusual in that he was public school and oxbridge educated and so i am not sure he is all that well qualified to comment about the state of relations between young Muslims and the rest of us. since reading his book i have read two other excellent memoirs- Ed Husain's The Islamist and Sarfraz Manzoor's Greetings from Bury Park which give very different takes on the British Muslim experience but which both tell us much more than Omaar's book. Anyone interested in exploring this very important subject should read both books.
Competent, if a bit thin - Rated
Not quite sure what Rageh Omaar was looking to achieve with this, but being a fan of his TV work, I thought I'd give him a second chance after being disappointed in his previous written work. Sadly, this also falls a bit short and I'm puzzled; Omaar has a very valid viewpoint and undoubtedly an interesting life, so why not expand a little? It's as if he had a spare couple of days and thought he'd write a quick book - a little more preparation and effort would have seen a much heartier and enjoyable book. An opportunity missed.
A poor book - Rated 
I was disappointed by this book, as I felt a work detailing what it is really like as a muslim in Britain today is much needed. Instead, this book is a poorly put together collection of Omaar's travels, life story, and opinions. None of what he says is very original, and I was left wondering who edited and approved this strange mixture. I never really felt as if he dealt satisfactorily with the many criticisms of his own religion, or persuaded me that religion in general isn't just tradition rather than truth.
Nothing much - Rated
I read and enjoyed this book ... to a degree. It was a bit interesting and a bit informative, but it only made a bit of a point and I don't even know if that could be clearly articulated. There was no new angle on anything, no real analysis of anything. All in all it was like a thin autobiography with a little bit of travel and a little bit of history thrown in
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