The Bunker – News without the nonsense Daily: THE GREAT BRITISH MUSLIM – Sarfraz Manzoor on how to bridge a chasm in the UK
Journalist, filmmaker and author Sarfraz Manzoor grew up in two worlds, a son of working-class Pakistani immigrants who told him he’d never be accepted by the white English – yet he immersed himself in Western pop culture and built a life in it. By 2016 he’d become anxious that the multicultural Britain that made him was falling apart. He talks to Alex Andreou about his powerful new book THEY: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other, and how to dispel the fears that divide us.
- “I was expected to have an arranged marriage and stay in Luton. I didn’t end up doing either of those things”
- “I don’t want my kids to feel relaxed with their white mum’s heritage but uncomfortable with their Muslim dad’s heritage.”
- “In 2016 I got really low. I thought, this doesn’t feel like the country I want to live in.”
- “If dating apps existed, I might have married someone that didn’t mean my family boycotted my wedding”
- “I might not live like a working class Muslim now, but it will never stop being part of me”
Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Intern: Nat Amos. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
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