What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids | Deeyah Khan

As the child of an Afghan mother and Pakistani father raised in Norway, Deeyah Khan knows what it's like to be a young person stuck between your community and your country. In this powerful,...

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Translator: Crawford Hunt Reviewer: Joanna PietrulewiczWhen I was a child, I knew I had superpowers.That's right.(Laughter)I thought I was absolutely amazing because I could understandand relate to the feelings of brown people,like my grandfather, a conservative Muslim guy.And also, I could understand my Afghan mother, my Pakistani father,not so religious but laid-back, fairly liberal.And of course, I could understandand relate to the feelings of white people.The white Norwegians of my country.You know, white, brown, whatever --I loved them all.I understood them all,even if they didn't always understand each other;they were all my people.My father, though, was always really worried.He kept saying that even with the best education,I was not going to get ...