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over three million strong british
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muslims make up nearly five percent of
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the uk population carving out their own
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unique identities some have made their
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mark in politics sports and public life
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it's time
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it was returned to the british people
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but not all are embraced by everyone in
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the community
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people that welcome my appointment by
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calling me a coconut and an uncle tom
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but it's not all positive for muslims in
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britain
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there's been unprecedented attention on
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their communities some poems force you
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to write them
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the way sirens force their way through
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window panes in the night
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and you can't shut out the news
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we are fighting a hidden wall
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i would never fly the union jack to me
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it represents killing murder anyway
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i do not think that they want to
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represent us what our voices and you
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know our belief as a whole
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there's been a spike in islamophobic
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hate crimes and muslims have become
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political fighter
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last year former british foreign
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secretary boris johnson likened women
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who wear the face veil or nikab to
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letterboxes and bank robbers
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the narrative around muslims is highly
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politicized they're faced with a steady
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stream of negative headlines targeted by
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politicians seeking populist vaults and
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government policy has centered around
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viewing them through the lens of
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radicalization
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many muslims feel like their voices are
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being drowned out and not heard
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i'm assad bake and i've lived this i
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grew up in one of the most deprived
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parts of the uk and became a journalist
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precisely because of my community's lack
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of representation in the media but my
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story is only one of many i'm traveling
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across britain to ask muslims who aren't
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used to getting the limelight what's it
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like to be british and muslim today
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demographics across the uk are changing
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muslims make up 25 percent of the
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population of birmingham the uk's second
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largest city it's where i was born and
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bred some neighborhoods are 70 muslim a
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reality some frankly just don't like
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in britain it's not just no-go zones
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there are actual cities like birmingham
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that are totally muslim where
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non-muslims just simply don't go in
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steve it sounds like a caliphate
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46 of muslims live in 10 of the most
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deprived areas of the country its inner
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city areas like these where muslims
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first settled many from the former
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british empire who came to work in
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factories at a time in this country
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required labour
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they established themselves in working
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class communities
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like muhammad's family he grew up in the
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lozal's area of the city and works as a
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security guard
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he says as a conservative muslim he
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doesn't feel properly represented in the
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media
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he spoke to us during his workout at his
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local gym
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what are you doing stretching yeah just
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getting some stretches how should you
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come um i'll come about three four times
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a week yeah is that it depends on
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you can't expect middle class white
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colored privileged kind of politicians
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like sajid javed all these people right
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to represent ourselves well who would
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you like
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people who like have similar life
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experiences who've come from similar
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backgrounds who we can relate to as well
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same way who are similar in our
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ideological ideological beliefs as well
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right who've had you mean someone from
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the young your own community i think you
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know what the government
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purposefully they don't reach out into
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our communities and basically have
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people like ourselves representing on
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that scale they have certain individuals
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like your sadji javed and your sadiq
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khans and
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all the rest who are slightly filtered
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down right and obviously what they try
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to do is use them individuals to try to
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obviously capture the muslim population
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and sway their opinions talking about
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people being
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filtered down but don't you think that's
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just the threat
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of being involved in politics that's
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what's going to happen no matter who you
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are
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you're going to have to sometimes
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compromise
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and some people see there's nothing
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wrong with compromise i think if you
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compromise then you neglect the aspect
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of representing islam
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as how it is once you've compromised
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because you're compromising your beliefs
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you want to keep camp for me
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and now it's four right about now
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straight in the back there you go there
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you go there you go
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seven so
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you know i don't want to mess up your
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account but no no no no of course
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british islam
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do you feel do you feel british of
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course i am british but i ain't gonna
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start filtering down my religion just so
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i can fit my britishness into it
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integration what does that word mean to
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you a lot of people see muslims as
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outcasts in a sense
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that they don't integrate and what not
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into society but i feel at the end of
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the day muslims have already integrated
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into society many hundreds of years ago
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at the end of the day but there'll be
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some people that look at areas like
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throughout birmingham and say hold on
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they are segregated muslims are living
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in their own areas sure that there's not
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married non-muslims living here these
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muslims don't venture out sure
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for the outsiders that may seem actually
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that you're not integrated
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you've got that side but if you look at
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the white community you've got middle
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class and then you've got the lower
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class people could say that they haven't
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integrated into actual society but the
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only fact the only thing is they haven't
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got a religion they're not muslims so
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there's no spotlight on them but the
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thing is with us like here right because
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the muslim and all the rest and i think
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definitely there is some sort of um
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agenda bigger agenda behind things to
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dilute the religion so obviously that's
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why they want to you know drag the
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muslim out shake him about
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how do you think the establishment views
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people like you i think the
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establishment would see me as a threat
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right because i put my religion first as
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a muslim first and not as a british
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person right they would see that
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obviously as a threat that if it came to
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the crunch you know he would side with
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his religion and not with queen and
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country
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but it's muslims who feel under threat
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52 percent of all religiously motivated
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hate crimes in england and whales target
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muslims according to hate crime
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monitoring groups muslim women face the
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brunt of the abuse
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sophie is a white british convert to
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islam her picture taken next to a
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letterbox went viral when she poked fun
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at boris johnson's comments comparing
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women who wear the face feel to the
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inanimate object do you ever like
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sometimes sit outside and have a coffee
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when you drink coffee when you wear in
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the club every single person in the room
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is staring at you trying to figure out
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how you're going to drink the coffee i
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don't mind the looks but i do mind when
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they swear at me right next to my kids
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which is what normally happens
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does that happen often
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uh pretty much every time we go out
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most of the time i just put my head down
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and keep walking hoping that she hasn't
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heard because i don't really want her
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to have this whole feminist mentality i
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don't want to realize that
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muslims are being disotherised because
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this is her country this is where she's
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going to grow up
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however i react to the abuse is going to
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be how she reacts to the abuse when
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she's older and i don't want her to you
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know go around punching people or
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swearing back you can't be aggressive
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because you know that just plays into
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the aggressive muslim stereotype
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so this is the letterbox where i
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took a picture of my bestie i just been
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into london and with my daughter and all
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the front pages were all about the whole
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work around everything else and i was
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just irritated and i wanted to highlight
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what a stupid thing it was for him to
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have said
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i spend
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a huge amount of my time in front of too
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much time with onto twitter
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presumably not like this in france i
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know generally not wearing very much at
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all really yeah it's my own house the
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idea that my life revolves around the
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cup
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i'm only wearing it now because you're
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here people keep telling me my niqab is
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a symbol of things it's a big deal for
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everyone else and it's not really a big
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deal for me
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what is it about twitter what kind of
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draws you in i can
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talk to people without being judged for
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the way that i look so the people who
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are actually interested in what muslims
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really think and how muslims live their
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lives
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you know they can get an idea from
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regular muslims on twitter and what kind
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of reaction do you get on twitter
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i get a lot of trolls islamophobic ones
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and
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yeah they don't like niqab save it
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you're a white race traitor and you
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deserve death for betraying your people
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an entire continent now despises you go
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look in the mirror don't you have
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anything better to do like organizing
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your daughter's clitorectomy or
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preparing mo's dinner mo is presumably
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my husband's here does stuff like this
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to make you scared
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i think i kind of bounce between bravado
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and being scared
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i'm i'm nervous when i'm out with my
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children i'm always very much aware
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there's a heightened awareness that
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there might be someone out there who
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tries to physically attack me when i'm
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with my children i had this one woman
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once in our local tesco
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who was standing just in front of me in
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the queue
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and maybe she thought i didn't speak
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english and she wanted to say terrorist
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or something i don't know but anyway she
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just started going like this
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at me and i was like what is she doing
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and i'm guessing she thought i didn't
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understand english and she wants to be
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very clear in whatever language i spoke
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that she thought i was a terrorist my
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oldest daughter was with me at the time
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and i didn't want her to see she started
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wearing hijab at school of her own
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accord about a year ago
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and you know i'm actually ashamed to say
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this but i tried to dissuade her from it
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i was like
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yeah you don't have to wear it you know
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you don't have to wear you definitely
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have to wear it at school you're like no
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i want to
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and yeah people started saying things to
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her
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british muslims are diverse coming from
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many different racial and ethnic
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backgrounds
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there's just over 200 000 white muslims
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in the uk some tell me they feel less
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likely to be targets of islamophobia
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like in the east of england in the old
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medieval city of norwich where there's a
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small community of converts
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the mosque here was set up by followers
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of a british convert that became a
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spiritual guide abdulkar sufi
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being white it's very very different
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than being
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black or from an asian background and
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being muslim there's a lot more
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likelihood of prejudices
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and bad behavior from other people if
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you immediately identified us
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in any manner that isn't seen as being
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the norm in the uk
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islam is a filter for culture
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it's not a culture within itself
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so within
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the best elements of
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when one becomes muslim
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the greatest elements of of your your
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cultural background come through where
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the worst are held back
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so
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i became more british after becoming
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muslim
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khalil is getting ready for friday
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prayer is known as juma
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and here we have
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perfumes
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so what you're deciding what which one
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to wear for juma
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yeah
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they're divided into different seasons
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springtime
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summer autumn
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winter this is a
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tea based fragrance
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a tea basil yep this no it's called tea
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for two
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what i'll be looking at now is what i'm
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going to put on for joomla
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um the weather i would say is a bit
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chilly although it's sunny and
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i'm a big fan of tweed clothing yes
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let's see i like to eat clothing it's a
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special occasion i'm going to wear i've
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got a tweed three-piece
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fly fishing suit
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very very tough uh
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it's
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very proudly
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displays that it's a thorn proof
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this will go with an accompanying
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waistcoat and trousers
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inshallah and then i have got the test
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of trying to match a tie because i
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always wear a tie for duma
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because jimma
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these endless wars
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and atrocities the crippling debt
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and poverty the enslavement of whole
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populations
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there's an importance attached to who we
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are here and we do stand out in a
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particular way and has been decades of
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work in terms of
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showing who we are as muslims
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my experiences are pleasurable
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when we aren't athletes when we don't
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bake cakes when we don't offer our homes
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or free taxi rides after the event when
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we're wretched suicidal naked and
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contributing nothing
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love us then
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because
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a popular slam poet
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she came to prominence after her spoken
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word performance about the pressure on
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muslims to prove their humanity
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she is from leeds in the north of
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england and graduated from cambridge
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university the top ranking university in
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the country
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i wonder isn't it really guilty until
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proven innocent how can we kill in the
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name of saving lives how can we
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illegally detain in the name of
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maintaining the law i can't
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write
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it people have literally just reduced me
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to like oh muslim woman poem people
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always want you to
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essentially be an answer be a
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representative be a representation be
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you know a quota be a subject of
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research there was that white guy who
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did a shooting in las vegas right
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there's no premise for anyone else any
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other white man that their humanity is
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now conditional and proving their
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distance from that kind of white man why
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is that this premise in the first place
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that my humanity is conditional
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i don't spend my life answering other
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people's questions i want to be able to
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just live my life
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and do the things i care about which is
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revealing injustice talking about state
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violence talking about you know the kind
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of actual problems people face in their
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day-to-day life which isn't
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why do i hijab
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the british nation state
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always is going to have to have an
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outsider right there has to be someone
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who is excluded for the for it to make
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sense and so at the moment the only way
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britain can really define itself is
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whiteness
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sahima gets asked to perform around the
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country we joined her as she traveled
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down to london
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do you think that the representation of
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muslims
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on mainstream media is fair obviously
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not what would their representation look
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like um
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whether that would look like realistic
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representation we don't have that
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obviously the only thing we have is
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reproduction of very negative
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stereotypes tropes cliches i think the
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fairness issue is what the material
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consequences of those representations
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are and so currently the consequences
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are that if you repeatedly represent a
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community um in a dehumanizing way um in
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a way that is purely negative and purely
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criminal and suspect the material
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consequence of that is that you justify
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treating them like that in real life so
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in policy terms and legislation you can
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then criminalize you can you can treat a
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suspect and people are okay with it
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i think the people that are always asked
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to you know given platforms um are given
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so for a reason it's not accidental the
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people who are picked very much fit the
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you know the good muslim kind of trope
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and being a good muslim means that you
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kind of have to be palatable um you
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really can't have any critiques or
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grievances of the state so these people
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come up and they condemn the bad muslims
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right and you create that distance
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between us and them but we only know
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they're good until they prove they're
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not bad so you really get this absurd
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kind of parody of the kind of muslims
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that platforms they have to prove
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they're so patriotic they love britain
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so much
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the public like facing organizations and
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stuff feel this need to
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be extra patriotic extra liberal so
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there's no you know no one coming to
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claim that they're bad they're not loyal
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um i have no sympathy with those kind of
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organizations and it doesn't reflect our
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reality which is that why would i be
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patriotic to a nation today that is
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so violent to people like you
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east london was once seen as the home to
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the white working class but now things
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have changed in some parts the white
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population has decreased from 80 in 2001
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to 49 in 2011. in fact across london
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white british people are now a minority
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making up 45 percent of the capital's
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population east london is also home to
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the largest population of bangladesh's
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in the uk what was it like growing up in
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east london um funny question because we
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used to get into fights all the time
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by the white kids
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we get beaten up
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we were very sheltered very culturally
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protected in our communities as well i
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didn't find bangladeshi people were
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actually mingling with other races and
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everything having said that it was very
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difficult growing up because when you're
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being racially abused all the time you
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don't want to integrate islamophobia has
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changed everything in the last 20 years
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we muslims have to try 10 times harder
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to put ourselves out there we're
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presenting what it means to be muslim
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and i feel like sometimes we are
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fighting a hidden war within our own
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community and on a wider context as well
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of being accepted there was a time when
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we were coming out of our shells and
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doing things in a different way and then
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all of a sudden every now and then again
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we get another injection of a big out
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cry that's going on
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we have to constantly be fighting this
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unsaid war and when islamophobia is
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always on the rise and it has been and
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it's getting worse and worse and worse
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i don't know where it's going to stop
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and nazia is a fighter she used to be an
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amateur boxer and recently won
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sportswoman of the year for her work
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you're a
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british bangladeshi muslim
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boxer
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you know personal trainer how many
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identities do you have i mean i
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struggled with this a lot growing up and
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i think a lot of asian people do or have
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done and it's a conflict between two
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worlds that we live in one we're trying
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to abide by our parents traditional
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customs and rules and traditional roles
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and then we have being in the western
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society of adapting to this as well
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there are muslim organizations that work
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closely with the government on issues of
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radicalization and extremism within
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muslim communities
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and it bothers nausea that some are
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dismissive of islamophobia
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when these muslim people are talking
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about certain things that they are
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trying to represent the whole muslim
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community it goes far far far from what
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we believe and it's fit in these
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politicians narratives why do you think
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they choose to speak to those guys
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because they're sellouts
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what does that mean to you
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senate's to me basically is you're using
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the word the terminology of muslim
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saying that you're going to benefit the
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muslim community but really and truly
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these people are not they are enhancing
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again these politicians views and again
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and again and again they'll come up and
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show up like they're doing something as
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a favor for the muslim community and
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they're not
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purely because they are benefiting from
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their role up at the top
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and they're looking down
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and not doing much for our community at
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all
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there is resistance to the good muslim
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bad muslim narrative though ibrahim came
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to the uk after his family fled war-torn
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somalia and his is a voice that tries to
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represent grassroots discontent with
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politicians and the media
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many times
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we've seen an increase in islamophobia
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how do you feel about that as a muslim
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brain i have never really felt entirely
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welcome
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i remember when i was very young living
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on your state my mom came home crying
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because some guys was throwing stones at
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her i was confused um i i sort of don't
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remember how i reacted or how i acted at
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the time i just remember the feeling
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i've seen it as a pattern that hijabi
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women are constantly constantly targeted
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especially when in fact it feels like
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it's almost exclusively when they're
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alone there are many that say that
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british values are compatible with
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islamic values
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what do british values mean to you
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the narrative is that you either have to
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be a non-practicing muslim
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in order to be accepted
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or in order to be um
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somebody who's seen as assimilating and
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integrating into society you get kudos
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and brownie points for going to the pub
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or you know not being too fussy about
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certain things which are considered
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conservative islamic principles and as
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soon as you're more you know unsticking
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to
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whatever those principles are you're
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concerned somebody's not integrating or
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not in line with british values whatever
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that whatever that means whatever they
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are
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is there a solution to anti-muslim
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sentiment
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how do we fix this country's problem of
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racism and islamophobia that has been
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part and parcel of this entire country's
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development growth history and birth um
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i don't think we can
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fix it as much or i don't think that
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should even be our priority i think we
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should just make sure that we protect
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god ourselves from it better than we
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have done in the past do you feel
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british
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no
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it
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i mean
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so when i go to kenya um
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where i was born
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they would all call me british and if i
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was to go to somalia they would call me
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british i don't hold any
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pride in
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being called british
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there's many voices within muslim
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communities in britain with differing
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backgrounds opinions and identities
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the challenge for the mainstream is
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whether they can accept that muslims are
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not one monolithic group and if they're
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prepared to listen to people who are
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angry frustrated and critical at their
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lack of representation
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i refuse to be respectable
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instead love us when we're lazy
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love us when we're poor
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lovers in our back to backs counselors
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states depressed unwashed and weeping
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lovers highest kites unemployed
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joyriding time wasting failing at school
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love is filthy sahima manzo khan
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muslim unapologetic writer and spoken
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word poet
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on the east coast of paradise lower
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class scum old town slum brand skin
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beneath the sun swap a dream
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british muslim muslim bangladesh
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specialist
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new beginnings in this point
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and i'm comfortable with identifying
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myself as a bangladeshi a woman british
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muslim but in the day
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and these things that make her who she
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is right now
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the people slowly destroy the only one
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they have i like your jackets
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british
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inside she was uber
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and the small was just for show
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