319:, Begum has described being taken to school with her mother and siblings, dressed in a saree and having to push through the Neo-nazi extremists outside the family home. She called this journey, "A daily act of resistance by four little British-Bangladeshi children". When she was 23 in 1997 one of her brothers, Abdul Samad, was murdered after being pressured to become involved in a dispute between rival curry house proprietors.
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