way he looked his response i know i'm different i'm black and my name is majid i don't intend to try to fit in get used to it. magid maija joins us now from our studio in brussels majid welcome to the show now tell us how are you dealing with the challenges of being a black muslim immigrants from somalia and a member of the european parliament you know but i'm just still of a find i'm just being me just doing me and you know this is this is nothing new it's not very exclusive sirup in parliament a lot of the same challenges i've been dealing with when i was lord mayor of sheffield all before that so yeah i'm familiar with it but to be honest with them i'm just going with them and yeah it's fine to be honest of course is a bit tricky at times but it's cool when you see you're dealing with it by just being yourself how do you mean by lynch because i think one of the hardest things especially being in the european parliament in such an establishment lie that when everyone dresses the same all wherever you just kind of about the way they interact and behave for me the biggest challenge was being myself and being unapol

this is the news africa coming up on the program he's a black muslim immigrant from somalia majid magid was just 5 when he came to the u.k. now he's a member of the european parliament who says refugees deserve better. nuki treat people with compassion and we need to treat people with dignity nobody choosing to leave their family their homes the community. he's been discriminated against for being an i'll be you know in my lot but now he's using his newfound celebrity status as the musician to fight the stigma. julia you're welcome to the show he's a 28 year old somali refugee who fled his homeland at the age of 5 and moved to the north and bridge the city of sheffield he watched his mother being racially abused as a child and his teenage years were troubled but then he became politically active at 28 my jihad was elected settled youngest and it's fast muslim a he's been hailed as a breath of fresh air by some while obvious described him as an insult to the people of sheffield in me my dad was elected as member of parliament for the green party but on his very 1st the other european par

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