BBC Two documentary explores how 9/11 changed life for Muslims in Britain
Mobeen Azhar and Masood Khan’s BBC Two documentary examines how the 11 September 2001 attacks changed the experience of Muslims in Britain. Drawing on their own lives and the wider community’s, they explore why the attacks’ effects continue to be felt today.
Azhar recalls a time when British Muslims were prominent in public life, including in parliament and English cricket, before the attacks reshaped the climate around the community. The programme is scheduled for 9pm; the article also previews other television programmes, including an investigation into Roman Abramovich and a documentary about a researcher who gathered evidence of killings in Syria.
- A BBC Two film explores 9/11’s impact on Muslims in Britain.
- Mobeen Azhar and Masood Khan include their own experiences.
- The documentary asks why the effects still reverberate today.
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The attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States significantly affected Muslim communities worldwide, including in Britain. In the years that followed, attitudes towards Muslims in Britain shifted, altering their position in public life and society more broadly.
Before the attacks, British Muslims held prominent positions in parliament, sport and other public institutions. Since then, the changed climate around the Muslim community has had lasting effects that continue to shape their experiences today.
Mobeen Azhar and Masood Khan's documentary examines these changes for BBC Two, drawing on their own experiences and those of the wider community. The film explores why the impact of those September attacks remains so acutely felt in Britain, more than two decades later.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “TV tonight: how did 9/11 affect the experience of being Muslim in Britain?”.