'I felt we were not getting our fair share from the English Government and that we were considered to be second-class citizens'
,” he told the Sunday National. “I felt we were not getting our fair share from the English Government and that we were considered to be second-class citizens rather than proper citizens of the United Kingdom, so that was the reason I was motivated to join.”“I was asked how I could be a nationalist and I was told I could be
or Tory but I could not be a nationalist as that was for people born in this country and I was not born in this country,” said Muzaffar.By the time he joined in 1972 at the age of 18, he had been living in Scotland for eight years, having moved with his parents in 1964.
While Muhammad was not particularly interested in politics, Muzaffar and his sister Zahida were and both joined the Pollokshields branch of the SNP. They were pictured in the Evening Times in 1979 supporting Angus McIntosh who was standing for election to the city council. At the time the SNP were a minority party but Muzaffar has remained committed to the cause throughout its troughs and peaks. At one point he was even asked to change allegiance by Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh who, before she joined the SNP and then defected to Alba, was a Tory and stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
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