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Wednesday October 25, 2006

Married singleton

IT’S been a hectic couple of weeks recently, what with Ramadan and then Eid and now am back at work seeing to clients who have been inviting themselves to the welcome party they presume I am throwing for the husband.

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Tuesday October 24, 2006

A divided Eid

Imagine in the run up to Christmas, two groups of Christians can't make their mind on which day to celebrate.

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Monday October 09, 2006

The husband got his visa

HE got his visa. That's right he's got it and now I am confused as ever. My friends ask me why I even bothered applying for his visa if I didn't have any feelings for him, but now that I’m married I think I should at least give it a chance and see what happens.

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Britain is for EVERYBODY

FOLLOWING my veil feature our website, the Asian News office has been inundated with letters and emails and I too have been getting calls from the national media to comment on the veil debate.

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Friday October 06, 2006

Don't blame the veil

YET again Muslims have been brought into the spotlight but this time the attention has been tuned to women after Jack Straw pointed out that women who cover their faces are detrimental to building better community cohesion.

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Thursday October 05, 2006

He's coming home

LET me first introduce myself before I bombard you with the little details of my life that has so far spiralled out of control and now I have found myself married to a man who does not speak English, who I don't really fancy and who is expected to arrive in the UK in the next couple of weeks!

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Welcome ...

WELCOME to the new Asian News blog. Here you'll find some completely new views on life, through the eyes of some of the area's Asian community, as they go about their everyday lives in the North West.

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