This article considers the production of an Islamic utopian or millennial discourse
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the process whereby global events can precipitate radical diasporic estrangement,
leading to self-estrangement. Such estrangement is fed by moral panics, expressed in
the speeches of politicians, in newspaper columns and global news reports. This
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