He’d grown up in Tooting in a traditional Pakistani household. Religion was just not his thing. “We'd go to the Mosque when it was required but we had a clandestine double-life existence. We were partying, smoking weed, going out with girls and doing everything we could possibly do.”
It’s only changed lives in that I feel it’s made many much more hardline & entrenched in their views. Until British Muslims learn to laugh at Religion, in the same way Christians did following release of the Life of Brian, it’s going to be an ongoing struggle they will never win
Especially Salman's life.
I wonder if people who write these articles live in majority muslim areas where English IS a second language and the area has become a slum in a few years and you are seen as racist by the council for calling their beloved minorities out for it?