Segregation Feels Inequality

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I do think there is a poverty of imagination and a poverty of opportunity that can come from living in a community that's monocultural. And so the idea that you might want to do something which isn't just following your parents in manual labour or whatever they are doing, may be not necessarily marrying the person whom your parents might want. All those things, where there might be a sense of communal pressure when you're in a particular community, that if you're not in that community, you can take those risks, because there's less at stake. So i think all those things lead to that, and i think that means that it becomes harder to do things that are not sort of within

In this week's episode Sarfraz Manzoor speaks to Ros Urwin about his investigative journey across Britain in search of the roots of division - from the fear that Islam promotes violence, to the suspicion that Muslims wish to live segregated lives, to the belief that Islam is fundamentally misogynistic. His new book They is a search for a more positive future. We hear stories which go against common stereotypes about Islam that reveal a much more tolerant and progressive community than commonly assumed. Manzoor unpicks why society is divided in this way and how we can bridge the gaps between groups. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/they/sarfraz-manzoor/9781472266835

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