![]() We didn’t read books.” Collins’s point was that the fatwa pronounced on the book in 1989 was the greatest recruiting sergeant the NF could ever have had. Asked whether, before he left the National Front in 1994, he had ever read The Satanic Verses, his reply was tinder dry: “We were the NF. ![]() ![]() Azhar, also a presenter on the BBC Asian Network, was able, now, to laugh with self-ridicule at how, growing up in Huddersfield post-fatwa, he and pals would play schoolyard games of “How would you kill Salman Rushdie?” It wasn’t the only laughter I thought reformed racist Matthew Collins a splendid addition to lucid, informed, contextualised understanding. ![]()
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