Shazia Mirza, the Muslim comedian and patron of The National Youth Agency (pictured right), is undertaking a British Council- funded trip to India. The purpose of the visit is to show India's estimated 150 million Muslims that Britain is a free and civilised society, to build bridges and to convince them that it is possible to be British and Muslim. If successful, the tour will continue to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Shazia said: "Muslims are at a very difficult period of their history, especially in the west. When I was growing up in Birmingham nobody wore the veil or burkha. Now when I go back everybody's wearing it. Muslims feel threatened and this is their way of surviving."
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