"With few exceptions, Muslim communities across North America and Western Europe find themselves wedged between surveillance states, right-wing xenophobic movements, and American state power. The situation in the wider Muslim world is equally dispiriting: civil wars in Iraq and Syria; drone strikes in Pakistan and Somalia; the wave of revolts that swept North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 and have been suppressed by a massive counterrevolution launched by Saudi Arabia and its allies; and the Western-sponsored subjugation of Palestine, now entering its second century. The sense of besiegement has aggravated questions of belonging and identity among Muslim youth. There is a suspiciousness of the nation-state, which divides and demeans the ummah, the global Muslim community. And particularly in Europe’s urban periphery, there is a need for a narrative of social justice that can make sense of what could be called the “global Muslim predicament.”