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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Vivienne Aitken & Kieren Williams

'I'm the first Muslim paramedic at my ambulance service and I've been called a terrorist'

The first Muslim to work with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) faced such awful racist abuse that he walked away from the job for two years after being called a "terrorist" and being attacked.

Araf Saddiq was proud to have been the first person from South Asia, and the first Muslim to serve with his country's ambulance service - even if he didn't initially realise he was.

The 57-year-old from Chapelhall, Lanarkshire, was born in the UK to Pakistani parents.

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