Fazal Rahim: If you hadn鈥檛 got in my cab, would you have met any other Asian people? - "Oh yes, in town yes. During the day? About five or ten?"
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- "I work at the Oldham College 鈥 so I am, on a daily basis, in contact with people of ethnic minorities." FR: How separately do you think the different communities live their lives? - "I think in Oldham they don鈥檛 tend to mix with each other a great deal." - "With the Asians 鈥 they should dress the same as we should, you know what I mean. Or they should speak our language when they鈥檙e with white people. That鈥檚 what I鈥檝e got against them." - "If you were a white lad, like me, would you be happy for your son to walk through Glodwick and Werneth on his own? If you say yes, you鈥檙e a liar!" - "My son goes to a Catholic school, and the way they try to bring the Muslim religion into the school, I think it鈥檚 a good thing. But at Christmas, they don鈥檛 do the nativity like I used to. They kind of bow down to everyone else鈥檚 beliefs, and our beliefs don鈥檛 come into it." - "The way I look at it is: if they don鈥檛 like it over here, go home. Go home to where you come from. That鈥檚 racist, isn鈥檛 it?" FR: I have children who have teenagers, where would they go home to? "I don鈥檛 know. But if they don鈥 think that England is a fair and just country, find somewhere that is.鈥
 | | Some of Fazal Rahim's passengers |
. [NB All the people spoken to were asked if they were happy to be filmed. Some chose to speak anonymously or not at all. The only racist views expressed were made by the man whose face is concealed] | 
