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Are young Muslim men still treated with suspicion in the UK?

Are young Muslim men still treated with suspicion in the UK? Is it now inevitable that if you're Muslim this will happen? Plus we play Guess the Story.

Are young Muslim men still treated with suspicion in the UK?

A Muslim student's receiving a twenty thousand pound pay out from the police after being arrested as a terror suspect. Rizwaan Sabir - who I'll be on the programme for the next hour - downloaded "the Al Qaeda Training Manual" for a PhD study into counter-terrorism at the University of Nottingham in May 2008. He was held in police custody for a week. The police have subsequently said that they didn't act unlawfully, but took 'legal, proportionate and necessary' steps in the circumstances at the time.

Can you understand why he was arrested? Was this a case of the police being wrong or do you have sympathy for them? Do the police have to act in situations like this? Maybe you're annoyed at the way the police acts when it comes to preventing extremism? I want to hear from you, so pick up the phone and get involved.

Later in the show we play Guess the Story. On the panel today are Writer and Craft Expert Momtaz Begum Hossain, Actress Shama Rahman and the Chef Gos Gosal.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 15 Sep 2011 13:00

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  • Thu 15 Sep 2011 13:00