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Beautiful girl. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
I'm a mum, I'm a wife. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
I want to look summery looking. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
I'm a dad and restaurant owner. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
Oi, Mr Poser, down to your homework. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
I'm a mum, I have my own business. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
How do you do it? What do you press? | 0:00:25 | 0:00:26 | |
I am a family man. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
I am a scientist, and I'm a Muslim. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
I'm a Muslim. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:31 | |
I'm a Muslim. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
I am a Muslim. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
No, no, no garlic. No. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
ANFAL SPEAKS ARABIC | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
OK. I'm going to cook, erm, | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
pasta with white sauce. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
I love it. It's one of my favourites. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
I use all the creamy cheeses and... | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
'I am from Egypt. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
'I grew up in Dublin. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
'When I first came here I was six years old. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
'And now I'm 26. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
'I grew up in a religious family, so my family, kind of, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
'surrounded us by Islam and religious views.' | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Obviously, I wouldn't even wear a scarf, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
I wouldn't wear a niqab at home. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
I would just wear whatever I'm wearing. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
You wear a niqab in front of strangers, all stranger men. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
Obviously, I don't wear a niqab in front of women. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
What's the point if I'm wearing niqab and hijab outside, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
and then I'm not wearing it in front of cameras, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
where tens of thousands of people are going to see this? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
I'm wearing niqab for a reason. So I have to wear it on camera. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
What do you want? This is chilli, you can't have chilli, obviously. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
This? You want a carrot? | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
Being a Muslim makes everything easier for me. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
It just shows me my role in life, just like a guidebook. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
Hannah, please. Oh, she's... | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
Since you're born you're taught how to do with things and how things go. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:06 | |
That's obviously much easier. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
It's just like going to a school, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
when you take your child to school to learn more things. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
To be honest, Hisham is such a good cook, he's much better than me. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
He taught me how to cook. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
Erm, I only knew how to cook a few things like pizzas, you know, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
just a few things. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
-REPORTER: -How did you meet? Did you have an arranged marriage? | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
No. He met my dad first, and then he and my dad became friends. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
He didn't offer me, obviously, to Hisham, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
it was Hisham who was looking for a bride, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
and then he kept asking my dad, "Do you have any daughters?" | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
So when my dad told him, "Yes, I have three daughters, blah, blah, blah." | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
And, obviously, because I'm the oldest he asked if he could see me, or he can... | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
And that's what happened. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:49 | |
He came... We met and we started talking for, I think it was... | 0:02:50 | 0:02:57 | |
-One month? -One month. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
Yeah, but... | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
It's was so funny. I remember that... | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Don't film me laughing at that. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
Listen, listen. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
'I thought he was the perfect person.' | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Today we'll talk about the Chapter of Sincerity. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
'He had all the descriptions I want. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:21 | |
'I liked how he looked like, I liked that he was a religious person.' | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
The first subject is talking about Allah. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
I was looking for someone religious who cared about the Muslim community. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
HISHAM SPEAKS ARABIC | 0:03:32 | 0:03:33 | |
I really liked his personality, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
I felt like this is the person I would love to be the father of my child. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
Mama! Mama! | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
'In Islam, when you get married it's compulsory for you to choose the father of your child.' | 0:03:44 | 0:03:49 | |
-Give Baba a hug. -No? | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
This is one of your child's rights. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
You can't go and marry a drug dealer, say. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
In Islam it's forbidden to force a girl into marriage without her permission. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
Even if she says yes, but she's not happy inside, in Islam, this is a forbidden marriage. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:09 | |
One, two... | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
When I saw Hisham I just thought he was... That's the man I want. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
HISHAM SPEAKS ARABIC | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
Love does come after marriage. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
The real love, because that's when the real actions of the man comes out. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
The real face of the man shows after marriage, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
and I'm so happy that Hisham stayed as nice as I wanted. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
OK, let's go, we're going to do your spellings. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
Oh, my days, stop it now! | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
I'm a Muslim. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:43 | |
I converted about 16 years ago. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
Abdul, darling, try not to be running about the kitchen, yeah? | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
Before I met Babu, I was a Catholic. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
So Babu introduced me to Islam. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
-Chicken Balti? -Yeah, yeah. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
We met through work. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
So we got to know each other, and then we grew from there. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
-That's done. -Are you sure? -Yeah. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Roisin is very important to me, we've been together for a long time. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
I say to her before the marriage, "Look, I'm Muslim. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
"And we do fasting, we do pray five times salah." | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
'He showed me how to pray, how to do wudhu, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
'and gradually I got interested in it. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
'And then I decided to become a Muslim. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
When I have problems I will pray | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
and ask for guidance and it does help. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
Because, sometimes, you can't talk to people, so you talk to Allah and | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
it sorts me out. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:47 | |
-I haven't put the spices in or anything. -OK. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
-And four green peppers. -Yeah, I know. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
So, it didn't go down too well with the family. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
When I did tell my dad, he was, like, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
"Why are you turning into one of those?" | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
Some chicken. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:04 | |
I had to explain to him, "Listen, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
"I have children that will be brought up as Muslims, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
"and it's going to be quite hard, and quite confusing for the children." | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
So I had to be a Muslim and he did find it hard. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
My mum was OK. Mum's easygoing. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
Some more rice. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:23 | |
My sisters do find it a bit tough. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
But apart from that, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
from a few years ago, they're a lot more understanding now. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
IMAM RECITES FROM THE KORAN | 0:06:32 | 0:06:33 | |
Anywhere you pray together, that's a mosque. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
So you could have a small room somewhere and you pray together. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
Allahu Akbar. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
The current premises, it's not fit for purpose. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
It's very small. It was purchased more than 20 years ago when the | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
community was very small, only a couple of hundred. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
Now the Muslim community are growing. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
Luckily, just recently we have managed to buy a new premises. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
We need a place for everybody to come and integrate together. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
We need a place for people to come and learn about Islam. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
I originally come from Mosul. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
And the funny thing is, when I came to Belfast in 1990, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
Mosul was very peaceful compared to Belfast. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
Now it's the opposite. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
So Belfast is very peaceful, Mosul is not. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
When I wanted to study and do my Masters degree and PhD. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
And I visited many, many universities in the UK. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
I found Queens is the best in the subject I wanted to study. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
What I like about Belfast, you know, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
the funny things is the hole in the wall. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
When I came here I couldn't understand what they were talking about. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
Shut up and sit down! | 0:08:07 | 0:08:08 | |
Excuse me, is there a Catholic in the room? | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
But after living in Belfast | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
I understand the culture and the conflict and everything that is going on in Belfast. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
I enjoy them. I enjoy the hole in the wall. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
There is lots of fear about Muslims. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
When you listen to the news, | 0:08:31 | 0:08:32 | |
I don't blame people to be frightened of Islam, because they don't know. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
They only see the bad image of some Muslims. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
You can't judge Islam by Isis. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
They are extreme Muslims who are actually just saying, "We are Muslims," | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
but their actions have nothing to do with Islam, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
because the name of Islam is peace. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
There's extremists in all community, | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
it doesn't matter whether it's Islam or Hindu or Christian or Jewish. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
Just in general, in all of Europe now, to be a Muslim is not easy. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
But the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland are welcoming and understanding. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
Maybe it's better than anywhere else in Europe, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
because you have been through this. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
So they are more... | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
..understanding of the Muslims' position at this moment in time. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
I am a typical Muslim dad, I'm not actually strict with my children. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
They do their own things. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
When prayer time comes I call them, it's time for prayer, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
so when I'm not in the home, they do their own prayer, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
you know, at the appropriate time. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:51 | |
Wudhu is, like, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:52 | |
it's washing your body and make sure you're clean enough. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
Before you pray it's compulsory, because if you don't do it, like, | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
your prayer doesn't really count. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
My name is Ibrahim Rahman, and I am 11 years old. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:13 | |
There's five prayers a day... | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
..and they are all in different times. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
And when we're praying, like, you can't talk in it. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
But, like, you have to say stuff. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
Like surahs and all that we've learned in our mosque. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
Allahu Akbar. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
IBRAHIM PRAYS | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
We'll have these. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
Because we are providing food in the month of Ramadan | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
for more than 180 people each day, | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
it's a big number, and this is a small place. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
However, we need to prepare. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
The month of Ramadan will be starting very soon. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
The holy month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar, during the day, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
people are fasting, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
and that month is usually dedicated to extra good work. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
Extra prayer, extra charity. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
Extra, you know, being kind to other people. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
So people go to the extra mile within this month. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
If you can see here, this is the donor list. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
For the main meal, which is... | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
..£270, £275 a day. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
So if anyone wanted to sponsor a day, they would put their name here, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
and their contact number, and they would come to the office to pay. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
So you know sign as paid, OK, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
so this will be complete by the beginning of Ramadan. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
I enjoy cooking anyway. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
It's like a hobby. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
I'm used to it. I've been cooking for the last 20 years. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
For the mosque, anyway. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
I was actually from Bangladesh, Chittagong. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
In Arab countries, a custom to satisfy the guests, | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
that's why I think a lot of our countries' people, 90% of people open the restaurant. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
That's the only thing they know they are good at. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
Satisfying somebody else's desire. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
It's like we cook it, enjoying. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:35 | |
And when you're eating and enjoying it, this is a pleasure to us. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
Our customers prefer me in the kitchen, | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
so that means you cannot be prisoner. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
You know, you have your own business, | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
but at the same time you want to enjoy the life as well. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
Spend quality time with the family. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
I think it's a time to step back, | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
because the children are not getting any younger. | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
They are growing, and they'll remember, "Oh, my daddy was always working. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
"And nobody gave us time." | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
So I think this is the time, kids, pack your bags, | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
let's go away and spend three months away from the business. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
My dad and the kids are all going to Bangladesh, | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
so they'll be going for 11 weeks. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
So I'll just be managing the place. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
I'm 19, and I've been working with my dad since the age of 11. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
And then just really behind the tills and counters | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
and then as I got older | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
was when I was serving tables and greeting customers. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
She's faster there on the pricing. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
My brain is not functioning. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
'Working with family sometimes can be a bit challenging,' | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
but, you know, it's mostly fine. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
He would do his own thing, I would do my own thing, and, you know, | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
we've both got our own roles. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
I'd be the only one out of my friends group working, but I prefer to work, | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
because I've grown up working and I actually prefer working than going out, to be honest. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
That sounds a bit sad, like, but you know. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
Good girl. My beautiful girl. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
At what age do you start covering up? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Hijab becomes compulsory after puberty. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
And so you just start teaching your child how to wear it at the age of seven, | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
and then you start telling them that they should start wearing it at the age of ten, | 0:14:19 | 0:14:24 | |
-and then it becomes compulsory after puberty. -Mama! | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
I'm trying to get her into nursery, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:29 | |
but unfortunately I was a bit late to apply for her. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
So maybe next year. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
It is really important for her to go to nursery, | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
because I want her to communicate with people, you know. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
Hannah's going to be bilingual, because we originally speak the Arabic language. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
And then we live in an English country, | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
so she has to speak the language so she'll be able to communicate with people. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
What me and her dad have decided, that he speaks Arabic with her, | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
and I speak English with her, and that's what actually happens. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
CALL TO PRAYER | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
You start off breaking your fast with water or dates, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
and after that you have fruit and then, like, now, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
everybody is getting, like, proper food. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
Fasting is good, it cleanses your body. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
It also gets you the experience of what's it like for other people who don't have food. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
How they deal with their day. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:35 | |
It gets a wee bit hard. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
Like, see the first couple of days or so, it's pretty hard. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:43 | |
But when you get used to it, it gets easier. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:47 | |
And easier. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
You do worry, because there are children that do need food, | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
but he's been coping really well. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
This is my, like, first time actually doing it. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
I've been waiting for this, for like, ages. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
This is a praying place. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
It's not a place where you want to meet a partner. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
There are some men who are really attractive to any woman, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
so standing beside a woman, praying beside a woman, can make him, | 0:16:20 | 0:16:24 | |
instead of thinking about Allah | 0:16:24 | 0:16:25 | |
and thinking about the prayers he's going to say, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
he's thinking about the woman he's praying right beside, you know. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
So I think that is the main reason, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
just to concentrate your prayers and pray properly to Allah. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
We pray first, and then, like, if you haven't seen a sister in a while, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
then you would go and talk, it's good to have a good wee catch up. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
It's good to socialise. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:50 | |
Right, I'm going to push together, you just pull the zip, all right? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
Pull it up. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
This is crazy. It's all starting to break. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
I'm a wee bit nervous, but very excited. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
Got it? Good lad. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
It's going to be a long journey. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
Because we're going from the bus place to Dublin, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
and then from Dublin airport we're going to Turkey, which will take about, | 0:17:11 | 0:17:17 | |
like, four to six hours or so. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
And then we'll be staying overnight, | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
and then the next day we have to go at half five to Bangladesh. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:28 | |
And Bangladesh is, | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
like a seven- to eight-hour flight. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
So, yeah, a long trip. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:34 | |
-Are you nervous now, coming...? -Yes. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
I think that the children will be more excited. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
They are going to spend time with the cousins and play with them. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
They are all similar ages. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:57 | |
The same age as them. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
And they will learn some English, | 0:18:00 | 0:18:01 | |
and they will learn... Exchange for the Bangla. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
I had a heart attack eight years ago. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
And then last year I was diagnosed with a cancer as well. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
Since then I've decided, I think, we need to take it easy, you know. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:22 | |
It's not all about the business, you know? | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
When you actually are diagnosed with something like that, | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
you know how important your family is. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
Does anything happen to me...at least, you know, they remember me, | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
to spend time with them, otherwise there'll be emptiness in their hearts. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:43 | |
-I bet your heart is... -Yeah, it's like butterflies. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
-Have you got butterflies? -Yeah. I have butterflies... | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
Do I look summery looking? | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
Are you going to miss the Northern Ireland summer? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
No! | 0:19:00 | 0:19:01 | |
Yeah, that's the one. We just leave it all here first. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
Well, today we are marking the end of Ramadan, and we call that Eid. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:29 | |
The third pillar of Islam, which is fasting. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
Well, unfortunately, the Islamic Centre is not big enough to hold large numbers of people, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
so we hire this hall, even this hall is not big enough. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
We are going to perform the prayer twice. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
This particular Eid is not actually for happiness, | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
because to just two days ago there was a huge bomb in my home country, in Iraq. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:55 | |
And more than 200 people was killed. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
That's breaking my heart. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
And we say, seven times, Allahu Akbar. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
My boys are nine, seven and five. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
You know, the beginning of today, they enjoyed it. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
We'll all go eat, then we'll go bowling. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
Now they want to go somewhere else, and, you know, | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
maybe get some fast food and enjoy the rest of the day. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
Come on, there is a queue behind you. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
I am not supposed to do this job today, | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
but because the other people are stuck in traffic | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
I'm just... Suddenly I become in charge of it, somehow. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
-You want bowling? -Yes. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
You want two bowling? | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
We are selling tickets for the activities, bowling or skating or Indiana Land | 0:20:36 | 0:20:42 | |
We subsidise it. Because some people cannot afford to pay the full price, | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
so we only charge them, you know, part of it, not the full price. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:50 | |
Of course you have to pay. I pay for you, I pay for you. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
'It's become now tradition of the Muslims in Northern Ireland - | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
'it's Eid, in the afternoon,' | 0:20:57 | 0:20:58 | |
we go to the Dundonald Ice Bowl. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
It's become a tradition now. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
Oh, I have lots of money, I can go to Barbados. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
-Is it enough? -I don't think so. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
-It's not enough yet. -Perhaps we can get you on the wing of the plane? | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
I'll just go to Bangor, then. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
I have two wardrobes. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
This wardrobe here is for the clothes I go out with, | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
which is my hijab, my abayas, and all. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
As a Muslim woman you don't have to wear niqab. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
All it says is modesty. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
A Muslim woman has to be modest. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
Hijab is compulsory, so you would see all Muslim, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
or most Muslim woman wearing the hijab. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
Obviously, different styles, different colours, different materials. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
So it's always different. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
This abaya here, I do like wearing this if I'm going to the park, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
if going out shopping, you know. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
It just feels relaxing. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
You know, it's a bit more sporty. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
I am educated. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
I studied English Arts. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
I know some people out there who would look at me and think, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
"Oh, she doesn't even know how to read and write." | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
Do you think that covering, | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
whether it's niqab or hijab, makes it harder for you to fit in to | 0:22:14 | 0:22:19 | |
a non-Muslim country? | 0:22:19 | 0:22:20 | |
To be honest, it's depends on your personality. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
My personality, as I think, is quite strong. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
I never feel embarrassed. I don't feel like I'm weird. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
I do get looks. I do get bad words said, people swearing at me, | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
but I just ignore them, totally. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
Or even if it's a question, I answer them politely if it is a polite question. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
-Welcome to Ireland. -Thank you. -Welcome. -Thank you. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
I believe 100% that my hijab and my scarf does protect me. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
So it's just to cover your beauty, | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
keeping your beauty for only your husband. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
If I see a woman walking out there almost naked, obviously, | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
this would attract men. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:04 | |
And then that's how, you know, she's not protected. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
I think she is unprotected then. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Should men not learn to behave? | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
Obviously. Obviously, and in Islam they are required to behave. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
It's compulsory for a man to lower his gaze and he gets punished if he | 0:23:15 | 0:23:20 | |
looks at a woman in a bad way. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
But at the same time, you can't put it all on the men and tell them, | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
"You have to lower your gaze. You shouldn't look. You shouldn't touch." | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
Also the woman should be helpful, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
and she should cover herself to make it easier for him, you know. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Because it's the man's nature. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Do you think you need protecting from men? | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Yes, obviously. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:44 | |
It's actually something that is so obvious, why are we running away from the reality? | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
Not all men out there are really nice. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Can you see how some women would be upset | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
and would see covering up as a backward step for women? | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
Western people look at hijab in a different way than us. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
A Western woman would look at hijab, "Oh, the woman has her freedom, | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
"now she's able to vote, she is able to go out, she's able to educate, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:11 | |
"so she can actually be naked." | 0:24:11 | 0:24:16 | |
We can see Playboy magazines, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
you can see a lot of, really about bad channels, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
the porn channels, whatever they are called. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
And they think this is freedom for a woman, when in Islam, | 0:24:23 | 0:24:28 | |
we actually see the total opposite. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
What they are doing is they are going back. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
You're actually don't respect a woman when you're doing that. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
I don't see how the woman's freedom has to do with being covered or not. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
I've think people should be OK with it. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:41 | |
Why force us not to wear hijab, and making us feel bad for wearing hijab. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:46 | |
It's my free will to wearing hijab. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
To be honest, it's a bit confusing. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
I don't understand how they are saying, "Oh, a woman has her own free will, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
"the woman can do whatever she wants, and at the same time they are like, | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
"Why are you covering? Why are men controlling you?" | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
Men are not controlling us. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
I have my own opinion. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
I am covering because I like covering. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
I believe in covering. I think I'm getting more deeds, I think | 0:25:07 | 0:25:12 | |
God is going to be much more happy with me when I cover. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
So why not? | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
It's a small business, but there's a lot of things to do with it. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
You know, you've got about eight members of staff and then some people are | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
wanting to take off, we need to find people to replace them. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
-Which one? -Table 10, it's already booked. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
If I need to be stern, I'll do it properly. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
You know, if someone's not doing something at a quick enough pace, | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
then, yeah, I will put my foot down. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Why do you not wear hijab? | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
I did wear hijab. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
Yeah, I was about eight or nine. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
And I wore it up until I was about... | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
..12. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
It was OK when I was in primary school, | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
but when I went to secondary school people would call you things or look | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
at you, or wouldn't want to team up with you in like a group activity. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
It was just, you were looked at as if you were something else, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:08 | |
like you weren't human. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:09 | |
And I remember coming home to my dad, I was first year, | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
and I just broke down and I was really upset. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
And then I told my dad, please, I don't want to wear it any more. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
My dad said that's fine, at least you tried to wear it. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
I would like to wear it, and I've said after I married I would wear it, | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
but now it's just knocked my confidence. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
Taking the kids to Bangladesh was good, bad, happy, exciting, all in one. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:40 | |
That's in Chittagong. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
You know, and that's like we are going through the mountain, this road. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
Tropical scenery, like Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
they are pretty much the same. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
They got to meet relatives - aunties, uncles, their granny. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:04 | |
Cousins. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:05 | |
..Your lovely yellow dress. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:07 | |
-Are you missing him? -Yes, it's embarrassing. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
There was some language barrier, | 0:27:14 | 0:27:15 | |
but they come in the middle and we're communicating. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
We thought they are not communicating, | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
but they seemed to be quite happy communicating. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
They got to actually see a different culture as well. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
How other country people live day-to-day. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
It was just really good for them to go there and experience the whole | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
culture, where their dad comes from. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
That's delicious. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:43 | |
When you walk into this room here, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
-you will have a nice big office space. -OK. -It will be like U-space. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
-So the majority of these walls will be all broken down. -OK. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
We got this week, the planning permission, for the new Islamic centre. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
We've been working on this project for the last five years, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
and this is the most important milestone in our journey of building | 0:28:14 | 0:28:19 | |
a new Islamic centre in Northern Ireland. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
We are going to have a bigger place, | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
and we'll have more areas for different cultural events and so on. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:32 | |
We are very happy, excited. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
It's within our reach now. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:35 | |
I would like to see people treating Islam fairly. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:47 | |
Learning more about Islam, and I'm not telling people to convert to Islam, | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
but at least know what Islam is. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
Become friends with Muslims. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
Go to the Islamic centres. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
Just believe me, once you understand the real meaning of Islam, | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
you will change your idea 100%. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 |