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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Shazia Awan

Shazia Awan

01/08/2017

BBC Asian Network - BBC Asian Network's Big Debate, Shazia Awan

Shazia asks, are people with disabilities ignored in the Asian community?

Shazia asks, are people with disabilities ignored in the Asian community? Also Shazia is joined by a panel of guests to discuss issues around breastfeeding in places of worship.

Shazia asks: Are people with disabilities ignored in the Asian community? Also Shazia is joined by a panel of guests to discuss issues around breastfeeding in places of worship. BBC correspondent Justin Rowlatt gives Shazia the latest on the devastating floods in the western Indian state of Gujarat, which have killed over 200 people. Former High Court Judge, Sir Paul Coleridge, who is now the chairman and found of the think tank, Marriage foundation, talks about a recent article he has written in a newspaper in which he claims that family instability can play a huge role in breeding extremism and terrorism. Community campaigner Faz Patel tells Shazia why he wants abuse related to differences in practicing Islam to be recorded as a hate crime by police.

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