Identity is always ‘in process’, always ‘being formed’ (Hall 1994: 122), and I argue that it is influenced by the surroundings in which people live. The surroundings are influenced by internal and external factors. The internal factors are family and ethnic and religious community settings. External factors are schools, workplaces and institutions, including government, in the wider community. The focus in this chapter is on how young British Muslims' identity shapes up through internal factors: family, ethnic and religious community. A Muslim male scholar in Britain, Shaykh Mogra, identified two issues that have generally confronted Muslim women in Britain. First, women have not been encouraged to pursue higher education; and second, women have faced restrictions in some mosques. Shaykh Mogra gave examples of his family members: