The Guardian’s Sarfraz
Manzoor was on Aled Jones’s show on Radio Two this morning (titter ye not – it’s great Sunday music) discussing how members of his Muslim family shunned him after he married a
Christian. He had this to say:
“It hasn’t made me doubt my faith. What it’s made me do is feel angry that some people are so closed-minded that they don’t even understand their faith. Before our wedding I spoke to a Muslim expert, an imam. He told me that a Muslim can marry a Jewish person, a Christian person – we’re all children of Abraham. It’s all fine. The problem is that parents and families are not experts in religion. They’re just experts in their own opinion. And so, actually, it made me conclude that people don’t understand faith. It’s not the religion I became angry with, but tradition and closed-mindedness.
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