Nigel Brennan

Trying to get away from him.

Abdullah has ripped off Amanda's hijab and just has her by the hair and he's pulling her backwards.

And then the next door neighbour and there's two older men

you know incredibly heroic uh unarmed so these guys these two young kids have got ak-47s and these three older um somalian men literally grab these guys by the scruff of the neck and throw them up against a wall and just start berating them in somali

And then other people sort of come to shepherd us and, you know, I'm asked, have you prayed?

It's like, no, I've never prayed.

I've never prayed in a mosque.

I want to pray in a mosque with people.

And they're like, come, we'll let you pray.

And, you know, people are saying, assalamu alaikum.

I'm like, wa alaikum assalam, doing all the things to show that I am, in fact, Muslim and don't get the opportunity to pray.

We're sort of pushed into the pulpit of the mosque and told to sit down, you know,

And I can remember there were two windows on either side of us and I was just like, I saw this big black figure sort of appear on the left-hand side.

I was like, can we shut the windows?

Because I was scared that someone was just going to stick a gun through.

It was actually a woman in the full black hijab where you could just see the eyes.

And we're sitting there, Amanda and I, you know,

I'd read A Thousand Splendid Suns, actually was the book, not The Kite Runner.

And in that book they talk about, obviously, it's obviously Afghan custom to get the Quran and kiss it and touch it to your head.

So I'm like, that's obviously what you do.