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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

‘God gives you life. God takes the life’: Muslims in Bradford concerned over assisted dying bill

Suffa tu-Islam Central Mosque, Horton, Bradford.
Suffa tu-Islam Central Mosque, Horton, Bradford. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

On the streets of Bradford, where customers are inspecting colourful stacks of fruit and vegetables piled high outside the shops that sit in the shadow of tall minarets, assisted dying is not the hot topic of conversation.

Many here do not know that a debate on the issue is playing out in parliament, after Kim Leadbeater, the MP for nearby Spen Valley, put forward a private member’s bill proposing a change in the law.

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