Tawseef Khan is a solicitor specialising in immigration and asylum law and a human rights activist.
His debut book, ‘The Muslim Problem: Why We’re Wrong About Islam And Why It Still Matters’ explores what it means to believe in Islam today.
Khan speaks to Krishnan about Islamophobia, what integration means to him and his experience growing up as a Muslim in the north of England.
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