Fazal Rahim: If you hadn’t got in my cab, would you have met any other Asian people? - "Oh yes, in town yes. During the day? About five or ten?"
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- "I work at the Oldham College – so I am, on a daily basis, in contact with people of ethnic minorities." FR: How separately do you think the different communities live their lives? - "I think in Oldham they don’t tend to mix with each other a great deal." - "With the Asians – they should dress the same as we should, you know what I mean. Or they should speak our language when they’re with white people. That’s what I’ve got against them." - "If you were a white lad, like me, would you be happy for your son to walk through Glodwick and Werneth on his own? If you say yes, you’re a liar!" - "My son goes to a Catholic school, and the way they try to bring the Muslim religion into the school, I think it’s a good thing. But at Christmas, they don’t do the nativity like I used to. They kind of bow down to everyone else’s beliefs, and our beliefs don’t come into it." - "The way I look at it is: if they don’t like it over here, go home. Go home to where you come from. That’s racist, isn’t it?" FR: I have children who have teenagers, where would they go home to? "I don’t know. But if they don’ think that England is a fair and just country, find somewhere that is.â€
 | | Some of Fazal Rahim's passengers |
. [NB All the people spoken to were asked if they were happy to be filmed. Some chose to speak anonymously or not at all. The only racist views expressed were made by the man whose face is concealed] | 
