In overwhelmingly Muslim areas of Britain's second-largest city, foreign flags fly from lamp posts and ugly sectarian politics threaten to tear the social fabric apart, as DAVID PATRIKARAKOS discovers in a devastating dispatch

Last month, a criminal lawyer from the Perry Barr district of Birmingham was charged with money laundering offences following a National Crime Agency investigation. Akhmed Yakoob is not due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court until the middle of this month but on Wednesday he came out fighting. In a video posted on TikTok, where he has 212,000 followers, he railed against his arrest by counter-terrorism police, claiming that he was the victim of 'a politically motivated attack' prompted by his 'political rise and vocal stances on Gaza'.

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